[aerogear-dev] Adding ES6 to node sender

[Luke Holmquist]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 9:30 AM, tolis emmanouilidis <tolisemm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Luke :)
>
> I was thinking to contribute some parts on that task. would you please
> share the branch when you start working on it?
>
yea, no doubt,  that would be awesome.



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