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<template name="basicIntroduction">
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<div id="introduction">
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<!-- clicking this anchor in the left bar should scroll to top of doc,
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not here -->
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{{#markdown}}
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_**Meteor is an ultra-simple environment for building modern websites.
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What once took weeks, even with the best tools, now takes hours with
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Meteor.**_
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The web was originally designed to work in the same way that mainframes
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worked in the 70s. The application server rendered a screen and sent it
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over the network to a dumb terminal. Whenever the user did anything,
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that server rerendered a whole new screen. This model served the Web
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well for over a decade. It gave rise to LAMP, Rails, Django, PHP.
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But the best teams, with the biggest budgets and the longest schedules,
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now build applications in JavaScript that run on the client. These apps
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have stellar interfaces. They don't reload pages. They are reactive:
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changes from any client immediately appear on everyone's screen.
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They've built them the hard way. Meteor makes it an order of
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magnitude simpler, and a lot more fun. You can build a complete
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application in a weekend, or a sufficiently caffeinated hackathon. No
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longer do you need to provision server resources, or deploy API
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endpoints in the cloud, or manage a database, or wrangle an ORM layer,
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or swap back and forth between JavaScript and Ruby, or broadcast data
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invalidations to clients.
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{{> quickStart}}
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{{> principles}}
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<h2 id="learning-resources">Learning Resources</h2>
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<!-- https://github.com/blog/273-github-ribbons -->
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<a href="http://github.com/meteor/meteor"><img class="github-ribbon visible-desktop" style="position: absolute; top: 0; right: 0; border: 0;" src="/forkme_right_red_aa0000.png" alt="Fork me on GitHub"></a>
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There are many community resources for getting help with your app. If Meteor
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catches your interest, we hope you'll get involved with the project!
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<dl class="involved">
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<dt><span>Stack Overflow</span></dt>
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<dd>The best place to ask (and answer!) technical questions is on <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/meteor">Stack
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Overflow</a>. Be sure to add
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the <code>meteor</code> tag to your question.
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</dd>
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<dt><span>Mailing lists</span></dt>
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<dd>
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We have two mailing lists for Meteor. <nobr><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/meteor-talk"><code>meteor-talk@googlegroups.com</code></a></nobr>
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is for general questions, requests for help, and new project
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announcements.
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<nobr><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/meteor-core"><code>meteor-core@googlegroups.com</code></a></nobr>
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is for coordinating changes to Meteor core packages and the build
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tools.
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</dd>
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<dt><span>GitHub</span></dt>
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<dd>The core code is on <a href="http://github.com/meteor/meteor">GitHub</a>. If you're able to write code or file issues, we'd love to have your help. Please read <a href="https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Contributing-to-Meteor">Contributing to Meteor</a> for how to get started.
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</dd>
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{{/markdown}}
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</div>
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{{> commandLine}}
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{{> basicFileStructure}}
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{{> basicMobile}}
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</template>
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