JS Development without Babel <3

1. Use a typescript environment that can interpret es6 modules

• Hello deno
• do all the dev and test work there. As it is a platform that supports 100% es6 syntax

2. Write modern javascript

• just dont think about require
• have no code relevant package.json
• although I like the automation with npm scripts and lerna

3. Write an adapter to node-js

• integration test
• ship to npm
• Boom: Result consumable in node/browser and the console

Setup

Why do things this way

1. Babel config is hell.

• a bit like perl - 50 ways to get things done
• dependency hell for just interpreting es-next code

2. Babel is fine, just not for development
3. Managing node_modules is a bit over the top

• not for development
• use node_modules only for dependencies not development deps