node-es6-starter

Node.js ES6 (aka ES2015) starter with Babel.js & ESLint

1. Write node.js source code in ES6 syntax.
2. Transpile to ES5.
3. Publish ES5 code to NPM.

Motivation

I created this repo to use it as a starting point for build npm libaries using ES6 syntax.

Babel.js

The current, stable version of node.js supports 95% ES6 features.

Also, we build npm modules to run on older versions of Node.js.

We will use Babel.js with ES2015 preset to compile ES6 code to ES5.

Coding style

Airbnb has an excellent style guide for ES6. We will follow the guide and adhere to the recommended coding style.

ESLint

We will use ESLint with Airbnb style and pre-parse our code to detect violations of the style.

Quick Start

1. Make sure you have recent, stable version of node (>= 6.1.0).

   nave use stable
   node -v
   

2. Clone or download this repo.

3. Get latest releases of the tools

   npm update --save
   

Commands

Lint

npm run lint

Build

npm run build

Run

ES6 code via babel

npm run dev

ES5 code (Transpiled)

npm run build

node lib/

or

npm start

Preview Publish

npm pack
tar -tf node-es6-starter-1.0.0.tgz

Publish to npm registry

Registry is specifed in package.json publishConfig entry

Delete the .tgz file before publishing.

npm publish

Code Directories

./src - source code, stays in git repo.

./lib - transpiled ES5 code, not saved in git, gets published to npm.

License

MIT