yeoman/generator-backbone

Add support for ES6 using Babel

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jamiebuilds commented

I can contibute a PR for this

arthurvr commented

👍 on Babel (optionally).

I wonder what the view of the backbone community on coffeescript is these days but I kinda feel like we can get rid of it (similar to what we did in generator-webapp). What does the rest think?

marian-r commented

I think including Babel into this generator is more complex task than in generator-webapp (yeoman/generator-webapp#543), as it involves making it work with RequireJS. I have it working for my own project, but I am not sure if the same configuration can cover all the edge cases here. And build with RequireJS is not working anyway (#299, #300).

+1 on removing CoffeeScript

ruyadorno commented

+1 to remove CoffeeScript altogether, this would be a HUGE maintenance win in the long term as it would reduce a lot the complexity of the codebase + get rid of 25% of all template files.