Atom editor view (space-pen) without using CoffeeScript. NodeJs util.inherits is not compatible with CofeeScripts __extends. This is most frustrating. For now, we have to use the CS version.

example.js

var View = require('atom').View;

/** CofeeScript's version of inheritance */
var __hasProp = {}.hasOwnProperty;
var __extends = function(child, parent) {
  for (var key in parent) {
    if (__hasProp.call(parent, key)) child[key] = parent[key];
  }
  function ctor() { this.constructor = child; }
  ctor.prototype = parent.prototype;
  child.prototype = new ctor();
  child.__super__ = parent.prototype;
  return child;
};

var StatusView = module.exports = function() {
  View.apply(this, arguments);
};
__extends(StatusView, View);

/**
 * Sets the view content elements.
 */
StatusView.content = function() {
  return this.span(function() {
    this.span({ 'class': 'activity' });
    this.span({ 'class': 'msg' })
  }.bind(this));
};

/**
 * Sets some references to elements on init.
 */
StatusView.prototype.initialize = function() {
  this.msgElement = this.find('.msg');
  this.activityElement = this.find('.activity');
};