ES6/ES7 setup for sandbox development of modern code

es7-setup.md

These instructions will allow you to write and run one-off node.js scripts using modern ECMAScript syntax, including async/await.

1. Install Babel globally

npm install -g babel-cli

2. Add a .babelrc file to the folder holding your code containing the following:

{ "presets": [ "es2015", "stage-3" ] }

3. Run your ES6/ES7 script with babel-node {script}.js

Alternatively, you can skip the .babelrc file creation and just run babel-node --presets es2015,stage-3 {script}.js