The Atom Shell framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is based on io.js and Chromium and is used in the Atom editor.
Prebuilt binaries and debug symbols of atom-shell for Linux, Windows and Mac can be found on the releases page.
You can also use npm to install prebuilt atom-shell
binaries:
# Install globally in your $PATH
npm install atom-shell -g
# Install as a development dependency
npm install atom-shell --save-dev
Guides and the API reference are located in the docs directory. It also contains documents describing how to build and contribute to atom-shell.
There is an atom-shell category on the Atom forums
as well as an #atom-shell channel on Freenode.