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[Proposal] use `esm` instead of `babel`

See original GitHub issue

Tests currently use babel in order to enable standard syntax (i.e. import) in modules.

I propose using jest -r esm

It may be that jest does not yet support esm, in which case see https://github.com/exercism/ecmascript/issues/450

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

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tejasbubanecommented, Sep 10, 2018

I don’t want to sound rude while closing this issue but I hope you understand. Our users will be using different versions of nodejs on their machines while solving exercises and we want to make sure nothing breaks - hence we have to use a transpiler like babel. Thanks ✌️

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tejasbubanecommented, Aug 26, 2018

esm Just makes es modules work in node. It’s literally that simple. node -r esm or put some esm directives in your package.json and importing es modules just works .

That means esm is not a drop-in replacement for babel right? Babel transpiles user-written modern javascript for the node version installed on user’s machine.