Writing Modular JavaScript with ECMAScript 6

We need babel and browserify.

Initialize the project

npm init

Install babel and browserify.

npm i --save-dev babel browserify

Create src folder, es6 codes goes in there.

Create makefile to build the project.

./dest/index.js: ./dest ./build/event-emitter.js ./build/module.js ./build/index.js
	./node_modules/.bin/browserify ./build/index.js > ./dest/index.js

./build/event-emitter.js: ./build ./event-emitter/src/event-emitter.js
	./node_modules/.bin/babel ./event-emitter/src/event-emitter.js -o ./build/event-emitter.js --module-id EventEmitter # specify the module name to EventEmitter, otherwise babel will generate the module name from file name

./build/module.js: ./build ./src/module.js
	./node_modules/.bin/babel ./src/module.js -o ./build/module.js

./build/index.js: ./build ./src/index.js
	./node_modules/.bin/babel ./src/index.js -o ./build/index.js

./dest:
	mkdir ./dest

./build:
	mkdir ./build

Update makefile using babel -d option to build directories

./dest/index.js: ./dest build-js ./build/event-emitter.js
	./node_modules/.bin/browserify ./build/index.js > ./dest/index.js

build-js: ./build
	./node_modules/.bin/babel ./src -d ./build

./build/event-emitter.js: ./build ./event-emitter/src/event-emitter.js
	./node_modules/.bin/babel ./event-emitter/src/event-emitter.js -o ./build/event-emitter.js --module-id EventEmitter # specify the module name to EventEmitter, otherwise babel will generate the module name from file name

./dest:
	mkdir ./dest

./build:
	mkdir ./build

.PHONY: build-js

Update makefile using babelify

npm i --save-dev browserify babelify

./dest/index.js: ./event-emitter/src/event-emitter.js ./src/index.jsx
	./node_modules/.bin/browserify ./src/index.jsx -t babelify --outfile ./dest/index.js

Write the code

// ./src/index.js
'use strict';
import module from './module.js';

module();
// ./src/module.js
'use strict';
import EventEmitter from './event-emitter.js';

class Test extends EventEmitter { // extend class
    constructor() {
        super(); // call super constructor
        this._initialize();
    }

    _initialize() {
        // initialize
    }
}

export default (() => {
    new Test();
});
// exports.default = function () {
//     new Test();
// }

Build the project

make will generate ./dest/index.js with runnable JavaScript.

Using git submodule

git submodule add [-b gh-pages] https://github.com/vivaxy/event-emitter.git

Repository here must start with https://, or we cannot publish this project to github pages.

Page build failure

The page build failed with the following error:

The submodule registered for `./event-emitter` could not be cloned. Make sure it's using https:// and that it's a public repo. For more information, see https://help.github.com/articles/page-build-failed-invalid-submodule.

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Other Recommendation

Use git to keep your code traced.

Write README.md to explain your project.

Create .gitignore to keep node_module, .DS_Store and your git submodules out of git repository.

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