“unexpected token import” in Nodejs5 and babel?

Question

In js file, i used import to instead of require

import co from \'co\';

And tried to run it directly by nodejs since it said import is \'shi

Answer 1

1. Install packages: babel-core, babel-polyfill, babel-preset-es2015
2. Create .babelrc with contents: { "presets": ["es2015"] }
3. Do not put import statement in your main entry file, use another file eg: app.js and your main entry file should required babel-core/register and babel-polyfill to make babel works separately at the first place before anything else. Then you can require app.js where import statement.

Example:

index.js

require('babel-core/register');
require('babel-polyfill');
require('./app');

app.js

import co from 'co';

It should works with node index.js.