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This guide will give you an overview of Amber, it's installation process and setup.

How to get Amber

Amber is shipped both as

• a npm module amber-cli for its command-line interface tools amber and amberc providing a small server, a compiler and a REPL;
• a bower component used as dependency for projects running in the browser.

We will see in the next section how to install both components.

How Amber manages files

Amber compiles to JavaScript. It saves each package file as a JavaScript asynchronous module definition containing the compiled JavaScript code of the package.

For convenience, Amber also saves the Smalltalk source code of each package in a separate .st file.

In the next sections we will learn how to install Amber, load and save packages from/to disk and fire up the development environment.