There is also extensive documentation for using Atom, including an online book, as well as Documentation for building packages (which requires a knowledge of JavaScript and CoffeeScript). Through other downloadable packages, you can easily add support for other Source Code control systems. Out of the box it integrates with git (the basis of Github's source control Platform).

It's highly extensible, with over 8000 different free plug-in style packages available for download and installation, Most of these packages were created by third-party developers while others are offered by Github and other vendors that want Atom to work well with their products and platforms. It's a general-purpose coding editor developed by GitHub with colorful syntax highlighting for different languages from JavaScript to HTML to SQL. Atom is a free and open-source text editor available for several operating systems, including Linux, Mac, and Windows.