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Configuration boilerplate isn't always so necessary. For those who want to have their cake and eat it, too:

1. https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app 2. https://github.com/mozilla/neo

Sweet tooling. But I mean the ideas behind this whole new ecosystem, like the reactive paradigm. Multiple tools for transpilation, Babel/Buble etc. Just adds a layer of confusion.

The transpilation thing is actually an entirely separate concern from your original post. It's a subpar solution to an unfortunate situation that people want to use the latest version of the language, but not all target platforms run it yet.

For lack of a better term, treat ES.Next like a compiled language, and Babel as your compiler. It's the status quo until the platforms we run code in catch up to natively executing the code JS devs want to write.

I know, I just didn't mean to deviate away from my original post. By the way, I use Buble with Webpack. Buble has a cleaner output than Babel. https://gist.github.com/angus-c/feea4e4cd0b853dc04c71fa4e7d2...

Care to suggest a better solution?

What do you mean?

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