javascript babel-webpack latest basic boilerplate

README.md

Basic manual babel latests + webpack boilerplate.

npm init -y

Install npm modules

npm install --save-dev babel babel-core babel-loader babel-preset-latest-node6 json-loader webpack 

copy the webpack.config.js file to your project.

The webpack.config.js is in this same gist.
The first code block in that file is to list node_modules that have to be ignored.

create src and build folders

mkdir src build
touch src/index.js

webpack.config.js

var path = require('path');
var fs = require('fs');
var webpack = require('webpack');

var nodeModules = {};
fs.readdirSync(path.resolve(__dirname, 'node_modules'))
  .filter(x => ['.bin'].indexOf(x) === -1)
  .forEach(mod => {
    nodeModules[mod] = `commonjs ${mod}`;
  });

module.exports = {
  "target": "node",
  externals: nodeModules,
  entry: {
    main: __dirname + '/src/index.js'
  },
  output: {
    path: __dirname + "/build",
    filename: "[name].js",
    libraryTarget: 'umd'
  },
  module: {
    loaders: [
      {
        test: /\.js$/,
        exclude: /(node_modules|bower_components)/,
        loader: 'babel-loader', 
        query: {
          presets: ['latest-node6']
        }
      },
      {
        test: /\.json$/,
        loader: 'json'
      }
    ]
  }
}