Any plans for es6 and traceur support?

[agnislav]

Hi guys,

Is there a plan to include traceur support to the generator? It would be nice to play with ES6 today to be ready for angular 2.0.

Sincerely,

Agnislav.

[Awk34]

Angular 2.0 is waayyy in the future

[agnislav]

I'd like to be ready for that sweet moment )

[kirkkohler]

@Awk34, I think the request was including an ES6 option with Traceur with Angular 1.x. In prep for the eventual ES6 and Angular 2.x releases. Or to just leverage ES6 today.

e.g. Taking the pain out of the config as mentioned in these blog posts.
http://collectivegarbage.azurewebsites.net/builds/
http://eugenioz.blogspot.com/2014/11/angularjs-13-and-es6-how-to-use-it.html

[andrewstuart]

Oy. I have to say I'm kinda disappointed with a lot of the decisions on Angular 2. If having the most popular modern framework on the web didn't stop them from breaking almost every construct they'd set up, I'm not sure what will.

I'm sure I'll end up using it and getting used to where they're going (feel free to talk me off the ledge), but it get the ominous impression that if I go with Angular 2, I won't really be using full-stack JS anymore. It'll be AtScript on the client, compiled to incomprehensible (barely debuggable) es5 for a while, and then JS on the server.

That said, ES6 does have some features I'm excited about.

[kirkkohler]

@andrewstuart good points and I've seen a lot of folks who express your same concerns of current plans for Angular 2.

Ignoring Angular 2 for a moment, I think it would be great to add a switch into the fullstack-ang generator to allow opting in/out of using ecmascript 6 with Traceur.

[JaKXz]

It would be cool to leverage Babel and just start using ES 2015 / 2016 features already.

[Awk34]

It would be nice to be able to use some of the features of ES6, but AFAIK using Traceur/etc with this generator would involve changing a lot of code to be ES6 compatible

[jamiebuilds]

Hi, Babel contributor here. ES6 is actually pretty easy to get started with, it's completely backwards compatible so anything you previously wrote will continue to work, and you can start migrating features one by one and because Babel generates simple high-quality output you don't need to be locked into it forever like you would with Traceur.

If you need any help setting up or using Babel let me know or stop by our support chat: https://gitter.im/babel/babel