So, all it takes is babel-node debug, and we are now able to use the built-in Node debugger just as we did before. babel-node will first transpile the code and then run it. A nice way to run this code is with babel-node. This is because the new import syntax is not yet supported by Node. If you try to run this with Node, you’ll see something like this: Let’s take the example from the aforementioned post, but modify it with some ES6 syntax: This post is not specifically about learning Babel, but I would recommend reading through the docs to get a basic understanding. It is the de-facto transpiler used basically everywhere in the JavaScript community, and if you’re going to work in ES6 (or pretty much any other language that you want to compile to JavaScript), Babel is your friend.

Babel is, simply put, a JavaScript transpiler. The key to understanding these examples is to first gain a basic understanding of Babel. I’m going to use the same three Node debugging techniques that Matt provided, but modified to work with ES6. Luckily, as is typically the case, smart people have already thought of this and found some good solutions. js will not work if Node doesn’t support the syntax! The problem was that the examples used vanilla JavaScript, and no transpiling was needed. I really liked this post–it was short, sweet, and to the point. This search returned a blog post that Matt, a fellow Atom, wrote last year. One of the first questions I asked myself was, “How am I going to debug this in Node?” So, as all good developers do, I started with a Google search. Until there is unanimous support for ES6, which will likely be quite some time yet, developers who use ES6 are required to run their code through a transpiler in order to transform it into valid ES5 for browser compatibility. Since then, there has been a lot of effort to add ES6 compatibility to browsers (and Node.js). ES6 was a major addition to the language, and it was just formalized in June 2015. I recently decided to use Node.js for my current project, and I also thought it would be a good idea to start off using ES6 (properly known as ECMAScript 2015).

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