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Jeanluca Scaljeri
Jeanluca Scaljeri

Reputation: 29109

Do I still need babel with NodeJs5?

As far as I know node 5 supports ES2015, but when I try to run something like

import sizeOf from 'image-size';

I get

$>  node -v
v5.9.0
$> node test.js
/Users/dev/tmp/test.js:1
(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { import sizeOf from 'image-size';
                                                              ^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token import 
...

Now, when I search google, I find suggestions using babel (using a .babelrc with an es2015 preset), but if node5 supports ES2015, why do I need babel ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 166

Answers (1)

Felix Kling
Felix Kling

Reputation: 816364

if node5 supports ES2015, why do I need babel

Node doesn't support every feature of ES2015 yet. For the unsupported features you might want to use Babel, or simply not use the feature.

Upvotes: 1

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