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## Structure of source code
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* **atom** - Source code of atom-shell.
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- * **app** - Contains system entry code, this is the most basic level of the
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- program.
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+ * **app** - System entry code.
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* **browser** - The frontend including the main window, UI, and all browser
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side things. This talks to the renderer to manage web pages.
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- * **lib** - Javascript part of browser initialization code.
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+ * **lib** - Javascript part of browser sidde 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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* **api** - The implementation of browser side APIs.
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* **lib** - Javascript part of the API implementation.
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* **net** - Network related code.
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- * **renderer** - Code that runs in renderer.
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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 side APIs.
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* **lib** - Javascript part of the API implementation.
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* **common** - Code that used by both browser and renderer, including some
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- utility functions and code to integrate node's message loop into Chromium's message loop.
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+ utility functions and code to integrate node's message loop into Chromium's
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+ message loop.
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* **lib** - Common Javascript initialization code.
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- * **v8** - Utility functions for using V8 and node APIs.
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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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- * **spec** - Automatic tests.
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- * **script** - Scripts for building atom-shell.
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-* **chrome** - Source code modified from Chromium's chrome component.
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+* **chrome** - Source code modified from Chromium's `chrome` component.
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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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-* **vendor** - Build dependencies.
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-* **tools** - Helper scripts used by gyp files.
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-* **node_modules** - Third party node modules used for building or running
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- specs.
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-* **out** - Output directory for `ninja`.
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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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-* **node** - Downloaded node binary, it's built from
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- https://github.com/atom/node/tree/chromium-v8.
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-* **frameworks** - Downloaded third-party binaries of frameworks (only on
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- Mac).
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+* **frameworks** - Downloaded binaries of third-party frameworks, binaries
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+ here are usually either closed source or hard to be built via `gyp`.
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