tour-du-atom.md

Tour Du Atom

• Atom Editor

  • A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

  • GitHub repo
• N1

  • The extensible, open-source mail client

  • GitHub repo
• Atom Packages :: N1 Plugins

  • Extend your mail client in five minutes

  • Docs: How to build an N1 Plugin
• Building N1 in Electron - Brooklyn.js Dec. 2015
• awesome-electron - Community curated extensive list of resources, example projects, awesome things
• quick-query
  • Minimum Viable Tercel base
  • GUI for MySQL, Postgres, etc as an Atom package
  • Existing atom package as template to use short-term
• Electron
• Mongotron
• WagonHQ
  • SQL Editor on electron in haskell
  • It's amazing.
• Atom services are 1 way could easily allow Thomas to start moving to using atom packages while in NYC as the API to hook on scope-client. https://atom.io/docs/v1.0.16/behind-atom-interacting-with-other-packages-via-services
• State of electron talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaPmi-33rfc
  • from the amazing @maxogden...
  • Great for insight on community, how/why Electron & Atom are really big deals
• https://github.com/maxogden/electron-spawn

  • easy way to run code inside of a headless electron window from the CLI

• The dat project
  • Another @maxogden project
  • Using it is like living in the future...
  • Comes from same time/problems that lead to scope & Compass
  • Demonstration of power of JS
  • http://try-dat.com/?id=npt5vfooptgo80k9 <--- online editor
• http://jsforcats.com/
• http://maxogden.github.io/screencat/
• https://babeljs.io/