Lesson 8 with Babel

[johnthad]

If you prefer Babel to TypeScript, follow these steps:

1. Install Babel: npm install --save-dev babel-cli
2. Install the presets required for async generators: npm install --save-dev babel-preset-es2016 babel-preset-stage-3
3. Enable the presets by created the following .babelrc:

{
  "presets": ["es2016", "stage-3"]
}

4. To package.json, add the script "babel:8": "babel ./lesson-8/async.js --out-file ./lesson-8/compiled.js"
5. Run the script: npm run babel:8
6. Create ./lesson-8/polyfill.js:

require("babel-polyfill");
require('./compiled.js');

7. Run the program: node ./lesson-8/polyfill.js:

$ node ./lesson-8/polyfill.js 
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[mariusschulz]

Thanks for sharing your Babel setup, Thad! I'm sure this will be helpful to others.

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