Welcome to this book on Meteor. Meteor is an exciting new JavaScript framework, and we will soon see how easy it is to achieve real and impressive results with less code.

In this chapter, we will learn what the requirements are and what additional tools we need to get started. We will see how simple it is to get our first Meteor application running and what a good basic folder structure for a Meteor app could be. We will also learn about Meteor's automatic build process and its specific way of loading files.

We will also see how to add packages using Meteors official packaging system. At the end of the chapter, we will take a short look at Meteor's command-line tool and some of its functions.

To bring it together, we will cover the following topics: