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# Source Code Directory Structure
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The source code of Electron is separated into a few parts, mostly
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following Chromium on the separation conventions.
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You may need to become familiar with [Chromium's multi-process
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architecture](http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/multi-process-architecture)
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to understand the source code better.
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## Structure of Source Code
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Electron
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├── atom - C++ source code.
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| ├── app - System entry code.
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| ├── browser - The frontend including the main window, UI, and all of the
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| | main process things. This talks to the renderer to manage web pages.
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| | ├── ui - Implementation of UI stuff for different platforms.
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| | | ├── cocoa - Cocoa specific source code.
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| | | ├── gtk - GTK+ specific source code.
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| | | └── win - Windows GUI specific source code.
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| | ├── api - The implementation of the main process APIs.
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| | ├── net - Network related code.
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| | ├── mac - Mac specific Objective-C source code.
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| | └── resources - Icons, platform-dependent files, etc.
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| ├── renderer - Code that runs in renderer process.
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| | └── api - The implementation of renderer process APIs.
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| └── common - Code that used by both the main and renderer processes,
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| including some utility functions and code to integrate node's message
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| loop into Chromium's message loop.
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| └── api - The implementation of common APIs, and foundations of
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| Electron's built-in modules.
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├── chromium_src - Source code that copied from Chromium.
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├── default_app - The default page to show when Electron is started without
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| providing an app.
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├── docs - Documentations.
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├── lib - JavaScript source code.
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| ├── browser - Javascript main process initialization code.
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| | └── api - Javascript API implementation.
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| ├── common - JavaScript used by both the main and renderer processes
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| | └── api - Javascript API implementation.
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| └── renderer - Javascript renderer process initialization code.
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| └── api - Javascript API implementation.
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├── spec - Automatic tests.
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├── atom.gyp - Building rules of Electron.
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└── common.gypi - Compiler specific settings and building rules for other
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components like `node` and `breakpad`.
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```
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## Structure of Other Directories
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* **script** - Scripts used for development purpose like building, packaging,
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testing, etc.
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* **tools** - Helper scripts used by gyp files, unlike `script`, scripts put
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here should never be invoked by users directly.
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* **vendor** - Source code of third party dependencies, we didn't use
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`third_party` as name because it would confuse it with the same directory in
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Chromium's source code tree.
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* **node_modules** - Third party node modules used for building.
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* **out** - Temporary output directory of `ninja`.
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* **dist** - Temporary directory created by `script/create-dist.py` script
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when creating a distribution.
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* **external_binaries** - Downloaded binaries of third-party frameworks which
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do not support building with `gyp`.
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