Re: [aerogear-dev] Adding ES6 to node sender

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 6:17 AM, tolis emmanouilidis <tolisemm(a)gmail.com&gt; 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(a)redhat.com&gt;: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> aerogear-dev mailing list >> aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > aerogear-dev mailing list > aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev > _______________________________________________ aerogear-dev mailing list aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev