apm - Atom Package Manager
Discover and install Atom packages powered by atom.io
You can configure apm via a ~/.atom/.apmrc
file similarly to
npm config.
Relation to npm
apm comes with npm and spawns npm
processes to
install Atom packages. The major difference is that apm
sets multiple command
line arguments to npm
to ensure that native modules are built against
Chromium's v8 headers instead of node's v8 headers.
The other major difference is that Atom packages are installed to
~/.atom/packages
instead of a local node_modules
folder and Atom packages
are published to and installed from to GitHub repositories instead of
npmjs.org
Therefore you can think of apm
as a simple npm
wrapper that builds on top
of the many strengths of npm
but is customized and optimized to be used for
Atom packages.
Installing
apm is bundled and installed automatically with Atom.
Building
- Clone the repository
- Run
npm install
- Run
grunt
to compile the CoffeeScript code - Run
npm test
to run the specs
Using
Run apm help
to see all the supported commands and apm help <command>
to
learn more about a specific command.
The common commands are apm install <package_name>
to install a new package,
apm featured
to see all the featured packages, and apm publish
to publish
a package to atom.io.