Detailed instructions of how to use BabelJS on Windows. You can run and complie ES6 (Modern JavaScript code) on Window Machine.

1. Running BabelJS on
Windows
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2. How to try ES6 and Beyond
with on Windows
(1) Open Command Line with “Run as Administrator”

3. (2) Create Directory at C:es6 and then run “npm init”

4. (3) Press Enter Many Times Until All Questions are Answered

5. (4) npm install --save-dev babel-cli
babel-preset-stage-0

6. (4) notepad link.cmd

7. (5) Type “doskey babel-node=.node_modules.binbabel-
node $*” and hit file > save

8. (6) Go back to command line, type “link.cmd”

9. (7) echo {"presets":["stage-0"]} > .babelrc

10. (8) notepad 1.js

11. (9) Type down some ES6 code, e.g.,
console.log(‘Hello World!’); + Hit Save

12. (10) babel-node 1.js

13. Alias is not persistence!
• If you closed the command line windows, enter c:
es6 again, and always run link.cmd
• Open command line program
• cd c:es6
• link.cmd
• babel-node somefile.js