meteor/tools/index.js

const { getChildProcess } = require('./cli/dev-bundle-bin-commands')

getChildProcess({ isFirstTry: true }).then((child) => {
  if (! child) {
    // Use process.nextTick here to prevent the Promise from swallowing
    // errors from the rest of the setup code.
    process.nextTick(continueSetup);
  }
  // If we spawned a process to handle a dev_bundle/bin command like
  // `meteor npm` or `meteor node`, then don't run any other tool code.
}, (error) => {
  process.nextTick(function () {
    throw error;
  });
});

function continueSetup() {
  // Set up the Babel transpiler
  require('./tool-env/install-babel');
  // Run the Meteor command line tool
  require('./cli/main');
}