b6875ad49b
renamed a few occurances of "web page" to "renderer" renamed a few files that had "browser" in their name to "main-process" note that there are still many occurances of web page.
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# Source code directory structure
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## Overview
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The source code of atom-shell is separated into a few parts, and we are 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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* **atom** - Source code of atom-shell.
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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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* **lib** - Javascript part of the main process initialization code.
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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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* **default_app** - The default page to show when atom-shell is started
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without providing an app.
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* **api** - The implementation of the main process APIs.
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* **lib** - Javascript part of the API implementation.
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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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* **lib** - Javascript part of renderer initialization code.
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* **api** - The implementation of renderer process APIs.
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* **lib** - Javascript part of the API implementation.
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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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* **lib** - Common Javascript initialization code.
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* **api** - The implementation of common APIs, and foundations of
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atom-shell's built-in modules.
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* **lib** - Javascript part of the API implementation.
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* **chromium_src** - Source code that copied from Chromium.
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* **docs** - Documentations.
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* **spec** - Automatic tests.
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* **atom.gyp** - Building rules of atom-shell.
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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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## 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 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 an distribution.
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* **external_binaries** - Downloaded binaries of third-party frameworks which
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do not support to be built via `gyp`.
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