Compiling ecma script 6 with Node traceur

Question

I can't seem to get the tutorial to work: https://github.com/google/traceur-compiler/wiki/CompilingOffline

• I installed Node
• I create a file here: C:/xampp/htdocs/angular/laravel/app/script/controllers/home-controller.js
• I want to compile to here: C:/xampp/htdocs/angular/laravel/public/scripts/controllers/home-controller.js

• I open up Node, and run the following command:

  $ ./traceur --out C:/xampp/htdocs/angular/laravel/public/scripts/controllers/home-controller.js --script C:/xampp/htdocs/angular/laravel/app/script/controllers/home-controller.js

It puts "..." in the command line.

I close Node and re-open...

I then put it without the $ and it says:

Invalid REPL keyword
undefined

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

in fact you have to install traceur globally so you can use it from the command line. you need to install it like this

from the command line of a cmd prompt launch the following

  your path>npm install traceur -g

see the "-g". then you must not start node but use traceur from the command prompt itself

  your path>traceur --dir ./src ./ dest

where src contains your es6 files and dest will be the result