[aerogear-dev] Adding ES6 to node sender

[tolis emmanouilidis]

Thanks Luke :)

I was thinking to contribute some parts on that task. would you please
share the branch when you start working on it?

2016-02-08 15:55 GMT+02:00 Luke Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com>:

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> 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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