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Options for deploying ES6 code

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This is a rough overview of the options for deploying ES6 to current JavaScript environments. Not everything can be combined with everything:

Decide on a transpiler (for your code):
- TypeScript
- Traceur
- 6to5
Decide on a package manager (for existing libraries):
- npm
- Bower
- jspm
Decide on a module system (for the complete app):
- RequireJS
- Browserify
- webpack
- SystemJS

Did I forget anything important (I want this list to be small, not exhaustive)?

espadrine commented Feb 9, 2015

I suspect that, for front-end apps, many developers will usually first go with a front-end library (Ember, Angular, …) and then try to find something that ties to the recommended toolchain for that library.

martinmicunda commented Feb 9, 2015

I have created AngularJS app (employee-scheduling) that is written in ES6 with full deployment process through Traceur, npm, SystemJS and TravisCI.

AutoSponge commented Feb 9, 2015

Add a polyfill layer if you need to support ES3.

nzakas commented Feb 9, 2015

Decide on a linter.

tjconcept commented Feb 9, 2015

Step 2 can be reduced to "npm".

jaydson commented Feb 9, 2015

@nzakas ESLint is your choice? I mean, JSHint and JSCS(for code-style) are far from being (ES2015/ES6/ES2016/ES7)-compatible. Is ESLint ahead on this?
Actually i was forced to disable linting stuff in my ES6 projects, for example: JSRocksHQ/harmonic#103

gabrieledarrigo commented Feb 13, 2015

What about test and testing framework that are ES6 capable?