Using ES6

[scott-w]

A quick question for discussion:

With ES6 starting to gain popularity through Babel, should the Guides use it as the basis for code samples? I'm happy to throw in the additional configs for Webpack to make it work.

A counterpoint is that it's still not natively supported, and it could possibly add another concept for readers to grasp that prevents the Guide from being useful.

I'm open to suggestions and I'd like to open it to the floor before I get too committed to a coding style for the v3 Guide.

[jdaudier]

I'm all for ES6 since everyone will have to learn it eventually.

[vernondegoede]

I also like the idea of using ES6 in the guides, especially since Marionette's core has been rewritten for ES6 support.

@jdaudier is right, ES6 will be the standard in a few months. Every JavaScript developer will need to start using it some day.

[ruthnaebeck]

My ES6 refactor through the end of chapter# 2 is available here. This works in Chrome with Marionette 2.4.7 and without compiling back to ES5 (babel).

@scott-w
If you want, I can submit a pull request to add this to the appendix for reference.

[jdaudier]

@ruthnaebeck Awesome! If you can submit a PR, that'll be great!