ATOMIC DOCUMENTATION
A good idea.
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Practical guides to describing, shaping, and reviewing your app. Start with the essentials.
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What Atomic is, your account and workspace, and your first app.
OVERVIEW
What is Atomic
How an idea becomes a running app, and the words you will meet on the way.
Read the guideACCOUNT
Create an account and sign in
Sign up, verify your email, and manage your settings.
Read the guideWORKSPACES
Workspaces and teammates
Group apps and invite the people who build them with you.
Read the guideSTART HERE
From idea to first app
Turn a business need into a useful, testable first brief.
Read the guideTEMPLATES
Start from a template
Try a complete app on sample data, then make it yours.
Read the guideBuild
Describe your app, make the first design choices and follow each build.
DESCRIBE
Describe your app
Start an app, borrow a look, and attach images or Figma designs.
Read the guideDESIGN
Design choices before the first build
Pick colors, type and layout, or skip straight to building.
Read the guideBUILDS
Builds and checks
Follow a build, read its result, and find every build in one place.
Read the guideBUILD & REFINE
Building with Atomic
Work in small steps, review the preview, and check the result.
Read the guideCanvas
See every screen at once, edit it directly and ask for changes in place.
CANVAS
The canvas
Every screen on one board, running on sample data.
Read the guideEDIT
Editing on the canvas
Select an element and change its text, layout and style.
Read the guideSCREENS
Screens, states and roles
How an app’s screens, states and roles fit together.
Read the guideANNOTATE
Annotations
Comment on an element and ask Atomic for a change there.
Read the guideData and users
Where your app keeps its data, and who can use and build it.
Publish and run
Check the real experience, publish it, and look after it once it is live.
PUBLISHING
Before your app goes live
A practical guide to reviewing a customer-facing app.
Read the guidePUBLISH
Publish your app
Put a verified version live at its own address.
Read the guideDOMAINS
Custom domains
Serve your app at a subdomain you own, with HTTPS.
Read the guideDEPLOYMENTS
Deployments and rollback
See what is live and serve an earlier release again.
Read the guideLOGS
Logs
What the app said while you tried it.
Read the guideVersions and source
What your source, your versions and your app’s data each cover.
Usage and help
Credits and usage, fixing common problems, and the words and limits to know.
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