“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

You have to use babel-preset-env and nodemon for hot-reload.

Then create .babelrc file with below content:

{
  "presets": ["env"]
}

Finally, create script in package.json:

"scripts": {
    "babel-node": "babel-node --presets=env",
    "start": "nodemon --exec npm run babel-node -- ./index.js",
    "build": "babel src -d dist"
  }

Or just use this boilerplate:

Boilerplate: node-es6