Using Futures in Meteor 1.3

I’ve had some difficulty importing fibers/future.

I’ve tried const Future = require('fibers/future')
and import Future from 'fibers/future'

both of which seem to give me a Future constructor but when new Future() is called it always returns an empty object.

Am I supposed to use the fibers npm package? Or is there a Meteor-specific implementation of Futures?

This is for Meteor 1.3.2.

use async/await and promises