Maven Plugin which transpiles ES6 to ES5 which uses Traceur or Babel

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Is there already a preferred way how to transpile ECMAScript6 code to ECMAScript5 using traceur or Babel (formely named 6to5) in a maven project? I have already searched the net without any success.

Accepted Answer

This might not be the exact solution to your problem, but the way I do this is by using https://github.com/eirslett/frontend-maven-plugin , which in turns allows me to use Grunt tasks during the build process (and in different phases of the build). Then by having Grunt available to me, I created a grunt task to use grunt-babel to convert my files.

The plugin also allows you to use gulp if that is your preference.

I also use the same setup to run Karma and JSHint during the test phase.

Hope this helps,

M

Edit: its worth noting that the node installation that the plugin does is local to the project. So no need to have node globally installed.

Maven Plugin which transpiles ES6 to ES5 which uses Traceur or Babel

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