async / await requirement details

Hello and thanks for this super useful project !

I don’t know if it’s the right place to open an issue about the browser build repository (crossbario/autobahn-js-browser) but since issues aren’t enabled on the project, I figured it had to be here.

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The browser build embed number of polyfills, but it seems that it also have references to async / await that are not polyfilled and the browser support for this feature is relatively new and does not include IE at all.

I doubt it was done on purpose (= the async / await in the distributed build), especially when we consider that the code contains polyfill for IE 9.

But if that’s the case, if it’s meant to be, this should probably have been included in a major version (because it’s a breaking change) and not a minor version as it was the case (20.2.2 => 20.4.1) (at least if the project follow semver).

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EDIT: This seems to concerns the unminified version only, the minified version does not seem to contain any reference to async / await.

[om26er]

As the time i’m writing, the package.json contain 4.2.6, but Node support Async / Await since Node … 7.10.1.

You are right https://node.green/, I will take care of that

[oberstet]

yeah, AutobahnJS is using calver, not semver. but yes, we probably should:

• make node >=7.10.1. required (for node)
• mention the requirement of async/await in https://github.com/crossbario/autobahn-js/blob/master/doc/changelog.md