How to implement private method in ES6 class with Traceur [duplicate]

Answer 1

Although currently there is no way to declare a method or property as private, ES6 modules are not in the global namespace. Therefore, anything that you declare in your module and do not export will not be available to any other part of your program, but will still be available to your module during run time. Thus, you have private properties and methods :)

Here is an example (in test.js file)

function tryMe1(a) {
  console.log(a + 2);
}

var tryMe2 = 1234;

class myModule {
  tryMe3(a) {
    console.log(a + 100);
  }

  getTryMe1(a) {
    tryMe1(a);
  }

  getTryMe2() {
    return tryMe2;
  }
}

// Exports just myModule class. Not anything outside of it.
export default myModule; 

In another file

import MyModule from './test';

let bar = new MyModule();

tryMe1(1); // ReferenceError: tryMe1 is not defined
tryMe2; // ReferenceError: tryMe2 is not defined
bar.tryMe1(1); // TypeError: bar.tryMe1 is not a function
bar.tryMe2; // undefined

bar.tryMe3(1); // 101
bar.getTryMe1(1); // 3
bar.getTryMe2(); // 1234