require('babel/register') doesn't work

Question

I have isomorphic app written in ES6 on client with Babel transpiler. I want my express server to have the same ES6 syntax as client code.

Unfortunately requi

Answer 1

steps to fix this:

1. remove require('babel/register'); from server.js
2. create another entry file called start.js

3. in start.js,

   require('babel/register'); module.exports = require('./server.js');

The result is that all code inside server.js will be transpiled on the fly by the register. Please make sure you have configured babel correctly with a .babelrc having the content like below

{
  "presets": ["es2015", "stage-0"]
}