Atom Editor - An Overview

from GitHub.com

Atom.io

Faddah Wolf

Slides:  https://slides.com/faddah/atom-editor

What Editor/IDE Do You Use?

• Sublime

• TextMate

• BBEdit
• Emacs
• Vi / Vim
• Visual Studio / Visual Code
• NetBeans
• PHPStorm
• NotePad++
• NotePad
• TextEdit (!)
• (Electron)(?)

Atom Editor

• From GitHub

• Totally Configurable (beyond your wildest dreams!  🌈 🌠 ⚡️ 🔆 🌟

• Scads of new functionality Packages (Install/Enable/Disable)

• Lots of UI & Syntax Themes

YACE

(Yet Another Code Editor) 

Ho-Hum. Why Should A JavaScript Group Even Care, Faddah?

Atom Editor - Under The Hood

•  Packages - CoffeeScript! (JS)

•  Themes - HTML & CSS (and maybe some JS/CS)

Atom Editor - Under The Hood

Part Deux

•  Customizing Atom (Packages & Themes)

•  How To Create Your Own Theme

•  How To Create Your Own Package

Atom Editor - A Few Pitfalls

•  V8 Speed — getting better!

•  Key Bindings — a bit of a mess (depending on Packages installed)

•  Updating Main Atom Editor still spotty (Quality Initiaive)

•  Package / Theme Creators: haphazard response on GitHub

Summary

•  From GitHub — Atom.io

•  Speedy & Gettin' speedier

•  Hundreds of Packages & Themes

•  TOTALLY Configurable in CoffeeScript, HTML & CSS.

• Issues: Update (Quality Initiative), V8 Speed, Key Bindings, 3rd Party Response

• Contribute to both main Atom Editor & 3rd Party Packages & Themes on GitHub

Atom Editor - An Overview

from GitHub.com

Atom.io

Faddah Wolf

Slides:  https://slides.com/faddah/atom-editor