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

As of this date and according to the ESLint docs on the VSCode Marketplace, including a .eslintrc configuration file in the root of the project enables ES6 linting in the ESLint VSCode extension.

My .eslintrc config file looks like this:

extends:
  - standard
parser: babel-eslint
rules:
  object-curly-spacing: [ error, always ]
  react/prop-types: off
  space-before-function-paren: off

I have eslint installed via npm in node_modules and all I know is that with .eslintrc in the project root folder ES6 linting works and without it, it doesn't.

Hope this helps...