How to use ES6 with PhantomJS

Question

Is there a way to use ES6 and modules with PhantomJS?

I can transpile each file from ES6 to ES5 using Babel, but it\'s awkward to maintain parallel trees (one in ES6

Answer 1

Browserify's --exclude option does what I need.

browserify --exclude webpage -t babelify script.js --outfile compiled.js
phantomjs compiled.js

That excludes webpage from the dependency tree but leaves the import in place.

Answer 2

According to PhantomJS dev's comment on GitHub, the full support of ES6 will come with PhantomJS 2.5.