Facebook Launches Browser Based Text Editor "Atom In Orbit"

The Facebook development team has developed a version of the famous open- source text editor Atom. This new version, "Atom in Orbit" can now be deployed in a web browser. This new tool is now available on GitHub, under BSD-3 Clause open-source license. Facebook has uploaded a demo app also, that lets you learn working with the editor so as to support remote development. 

 

The new tool, as per the spokesperson,  is more about a hack as well as a demo, than it is about a full-bore open-source release, which has been built on Facebook’s Nuclide IDE, that runs on top of Atom. Atom has a very good response in the market and a huge user base.  Now, you will be able to run it in the browser, which comes with certain advantages.

 

In the official blog, Facebook states,

 

For more details, check the documentation, here.