🚨 Contributing to Atom 🚨

Issues

Include screenshots and animated GIFs whenever possible, they are immensely helpful.
Include the behavior you expected to happen and other places you've seen that behavior such as Emacs, vi, Xcode, etc.
Check the Console app for stack traces to include if reporting a crash.
Check the Dev tools (alt-cmd-i) for errors and stack traces to include.

Include screenshots and animated GIFs whenever possible.
Follow the JavaScript and CSS styleguides
Include thoughtfully worded Jasmine specs
Avoid placing files in vendor. 3rd-party packages should be added as a package.json dependency.
Commit messages are in the present tense
Files end with a newline.
Requires should be in the following order:
- Node Modules
- Built in Atom and Atom Shell modules
- Local Modules (using relative links)
Class variables and methods should be in the following order:
- Class methods (methods starting with a @)
- Instance methods
Beware of platform differences
- Use fs.getHomeDirectory() to get home directory.
- Use path.join() to concatenate filenames.
- Temporary directory is not /tmp on Windows, use os.tmpdir() when possible