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Arbaoui Mehdi
Arbaoui Mehdi

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Use the ES6 import in Node.js

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If you decide to use the ES6 import instead of require, this is a simple presentation on how to achieve that using babel:

– First Install the core dependencies:

npm install babel-register babel-preset-env --save-dev
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– Create a starter.js file that contain how your code has to be transpiled plus the file that contains your imports:

require("babel-register")({
  presets: ["env"],
});

// Import the rest of our application.
module.exports = require("./test.js");
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And now your can use import in your test.js file instead of require:

import validator from "validator";

const email = "yep";

if (!validator.isEmail(email)) {
  console.log("the email is not valid");
}
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To test the output:

node starters.js
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Gábor Soós •

It is supported natively

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Arbaoui Mehdi •

Not for the older versions.

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Dmitriy Popovich •

Hi! Thank for article. Do you know way to use ES6 modules in node with typeScript?