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Support for Node.js style module.exports

See original GitHub issue

As of Node.js 4.2.0 and 5.0.0, much of the desired ES6 functionality many developers have without the need for using tools such as babel. However, Node.js does not yet support ES6 module syntax (any may never support it). But we, and I’m sure many others, would love to use esdoc with native ES6 on Node 4.2.0/5.0.0.

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Created 8 years ago
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Comments:5 (1 by maintainers)

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nashton109commented, Jan 5, 2016

To get this working for one of my projects, i have a very quick and dirty plugin which is included in via the plugins config in my esdoc file:

exports.onHandleCode = function (ev) {
  ev.data.code = ev.data.code
    .replace(/module\.exports = /g, 'export default ')
    .replace(/exports = /g, 'export default ');
};

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thetutlagecommented, Feb 4, 2016

@Orgun109uk Same does not work with

exports = module.exports = {}

As it fails even before reaching the onHandleCode

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