Summary

In this chapter, we learned what Meteor requires to run, how to create a Meteor application, and how the build process works.

We understand that Meteor's folder structure is rather flexible, but that there are special folders such as the client, server, and lib folder, which are loaded in different places and order. We also saw how to add packages and how to use the Meteor command-line tool.

If you want to dig deeper into what we've learned so far, take a look at the following parts of the Meteor documentation:

You can find this chapter's code examples at https://www.packtpub.com/books/content/support/17713 or on GitHub at https://github.com/frozeman/book-building-single-page-web-apps-with-meteor/tree/chapter1.

Now that we've set up our project's basic folder structure, we are ready to start with the fun part of Meteor—templates.