npm-base

Boilerplate for creating npm packages with ES2015. Written with Meteor developers in mind but great for anyone. Based on Arunoda's original npm-base boilerplate, this was initially forked to add the babel watch command and use the AirBnB style guide for linting.

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Writing in ES2015 is an amazing experience. Setting up babel and the development environment in a kind of a pain.

If you want to write a npm module in ES2015 and publish to npm with backward compatibility, this is the easiest way.

Basic Usage

• Simply clone this project.
• Change the package.json as you want.
• lib/index.js in your entry point.
• npm start will initiate the babel watch command and automatically transpile your code on save.
• Then publish to npm via npm publish.

Linting

• ESLINT support is added to the project.
• It's configured for ES2015 and inherited configurations from graphql/graphql-js.
• Use npm run lint to lint your code and npm run lintfix to fix common issues.

Testing

• You can write test under __test__ directory anywhere inside lib including sub-directories.
• Then run npm test to test your code. (It'll lint your code as well).
• You can also run npm run testonly to run tests without linting.

ES2015 Setup

• ES2015 support is added with babel6.
• After you publish your project to npm, it can be run on older node versions and browsers without the support of Babel.
• This project uses ES2015 and some of the upcoming features like async await.
• You can change them with adding and removing presets.
• All the polyfills you use are taken from the local babel-runtime package. So, this package won't add any global polyfills and pollute the global namespace.

Kudos

• Babel6 and the team behind it.
• AirBnB style guide