[aerogear-dev] Adding ES6 to node sender

[Luke Holmquist]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 6:17 AM, tolis emmanouilidis <tolisemm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> +1 on ES6 features & Babel JS
>
> Do you plan to use ES6 promises or replacing the existing HTTP,HTTPS
> requests with something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/request-promise
> ?
>

i think the plan was to use Native promises.  while bluebird (which is what
is the underlying promise implementation for that request-promise module)
is a solid library, i'd like to stick to the spec.

>
> I'd also like to see an AeroGear Sender "class" inside module by using ES6
> class.
>

baby steps :)

>
> Thanks,
> Tolis
>
> 2016-01-29 20:10 GMT+02:00 Luke Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com>:
>
>> hello,
>>
>> I just created a JIRA for the node ups sender,
>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGJS-308, that tracks the addition of
>> using ES6(the next version of Javascript).
>>
>> My thoughts were to use the new features where ever possible.
>>
>> Since not every feature is available on all versions of node, we would
>> use Babel.js https://babeljs.io/ , to transpile that code back to
>> ES5(the version before es6 :)).
>>
>> This transpilation would happen during an "npm publish" so users would
>> never really see a difference.
>>
>> The cool thing about Babel is that we can specify which features we want
>> transpiled,  so in the future this list of transpiled features would
>> hopefully get smaller and smaller.
>>
>> The latest versions of node have a lot of new features in them, so it
>> would be nice to start coding that way.  For instance, this plugin,
>> https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-preset-node5  , is a preset for the
>> features that node 5 has.
>>
>>
>> wanted to get some thoughts on this.
>>
>> -Luke
>>
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