Is there a way to turn on ES6/ES7 syntax support in vscode?

Question

Edit 3: Starting in version 0.4.0, ES6 syntax can be turned on by adding a jsconfig.json file to the project folder with the following contents:

Answer 1

Currently, the only way to use ES6 and ES7 features is to use Typescript.

On the other hand, here you can see that there is a feature request for ES6 and ES7