If you're already using Webpack as a bundler, you can integrate Babel to Webpack by following these steps. To run Babel as a standalone tool, run this from the command line: babel src -out-dir bin -source-maps To install Babel as a standalone tool, use this command: npm install babel-cli babel-preset-es2015 babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx -save-dev If you want to use Webpack and Babel together, skip to the section below. Once NPM is installed, create a project folder and run this command: npm init -y The simplest way to setup an ES6 compilation toolchain is via Babel.īabel requires NPM, which is automatically installed when you install Node.js. However, for the vast majority of use cases, a compiler toolchain like Babel is required to compile ES6 features down to ES5. In some limited environments, it's possible to use a significant subset of ES6 directly without extra tooling (for example, in internal applications that do not support IE).

It's not yet fully supported by all major browsers and it's not a requirement for writing an application, but it may be pleasing to use depending on your team's preferences. ES6 is a recent update to Javascript that introduces new syntax sugar for various common cases. Mithril is written in ES5, and is fully compatible with ES6 as well. ES6 - Mithril.js ≡ Mithril 1.1.7 Guide API Chat GitHub ES6

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