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

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

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(a)redhat.com&gt;: > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ aerogear-dev mailing list aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev