Using ES6 in Nodejs without transpiling code

Question

I am using Nodejs v9.0.0. I have to use Babel for transpiling the code into ES5 because if not transpiled it throws error unexpected token import. So If anyone know how to use the real ES6 version in nodejs and which nodejs version. Please let me know.

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Install Node v10.9.0. v9 does not support ES6 module syntax. — Patrick Roberts
– Patrick Roberts, Commented Aug 16, 2018 at 4:32
If you want to resolve unexpected token import issue refer to this link — Suman Kundu
– Suman Kundu, Commented Aug 16, 2018 at 4:33
I am using a SDK which requires Nodejs 9.0 not above that. Is it possible to use ES6 with Node v9.0.0? — Akshay Sood
– Akshay Sood, Commented Aug 16, 2018 at 4:47

Troopers · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-16 08:09:07Z

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All es6 is supported by NodeJS since 8.10 version : look at the column NodeJS in the es6 compatibility array. Unforfunately the ES6 Module syntax is not supported or only with the flag experimental.

So you need to convert your ESModule in CJSModule. You can do it with the babel-plugin-transform-es2015-modules-commonjs plugin

In your .babelrc file :

"plugins": [
    "transform-es2015-modules-commonjs"
]

If you use babel-register the transformation occurs when the file is required(imported)

edited Aug 16, 2018 at 8:09

answered Aug 16, 2018 at 7:37

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