For newcomers that want to test ES6 features and Node, it's a bit cumbersome to create a full working setup (transpilers, testing framework, build). This project aims to give a pre-built start to play with ES6/Node without any hassle, with the added bonus of giving a working setup of npm as build system and testing with Mocha/Chai frameworks.
- Fully working ES6 environment for Node.js
- Mocha/Chai.js powered test suite exemplifying ES6 features
- Build done entirely with NPM (no Grunt, no Gulp)
- ES6 transpiling done with Babel
- Easy to start a real project on top of it
Clone this project and run npm install at the project root.
To run the tests you can use: npm test or npm run autotest. The first form run the test one time (NPM convention), the second one run the tests everytime that something is changed.
If you want to build your ES6 files to ES5, run npm run build or npm autobuild and check the results in the dist/ folder.
Finally to run your your applications there are two forms: First using ./node_modules/.bin/node-babel src/<file.js> that will transpile the ES6 files on the fly and execute it. Secondly using node dist/<file.js> on the transpiled files of the npm run build task.
Just remember to add import polyfill from "babel/polyfill"; on the entry-point file only if using the second form of execution. This will the necessary polyfill to make an ES5 environment works as an ES6 one.
- Mocha.js the solid testing framework
- Chai.js the nice looking assertion Framework
- Babel the incredible ES6 to ES5 transpiler
- es6features the inspirational overview of ES6 features