This article is about how to use

es6+

in nodejs project

Initialising project with npm

npm init -y

Installing babel plugins for es6+ features

npm i -D @babel/cli @babel/core @babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties @babel/plugin-transform-runtime @babel/preset-env

Adding babel support for project

touch .babelrc

Paste the following content in

.babelrc

```javscript { "presets": ["@babel/preset-env"], "plugins": ["@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties", "@babel/transform-runtime"] }

Babel is not a compiler or interpreter it is just a transpiler so we have to transpile `es6` to `es5` using babel then we have to execute that transpiled code. For that we can write npm script.

Add the following script to `package.json`

bash "build": "babel src -d dist", "start": "npm run build && node dist"

```

Now create

src

folder and start writing

es6+

code inside that folder. Run

npm start

it will create

dist

folder inside that folder we can find transpiled code.

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