Getting Started - Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript - page 6

for Metro development. The default.html file is the page that will be loaded when the
application is started, and the css , images , and js folders contain the resources that the
app will depend on.
Figure 1-3. The blank example project as shown by the Solution Explorer
The essential files are default.html , default.css , and default.js. These files define the
structure of the layout, the styles applied to it, and the code that manages the data and the
interactions with the user. The fact that these files are the same ones you would generally see in
web app development reflects the way in which Metro app development embraces web devel-
opment techniques and tools.
In the sections that follow, I'll show you each of the most important files in the project,
explain what they do, and make some initial changes to create the structure I'll need later in
this topic.