Babel support? about micro-dev HOT 8 CLOSED

I'm working with micro-dev & PhantomJS to make some webscrappers workers. The thing is that Phantom supports very few ES2015 features (something about of 10%) so I want to still use Babel and of course, not just for import statements but now I have the work of running npm run build every time I want micro-dev to hot-reload and If I want to automatically build the source code I have to spawn 2 processes, micro-dev and webpack and that isn't efficient. Can we reopen this issue to find a solution for this? I was thinking of making a micro-dev support programmatically API as same micro does or building a webpack-plugin for it.

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Hi, this might be a naive solution, but it seems to be working:

// index.js
require('babel-register')
const foo = require('./foo').default

module.exports = function (req, res) {
  const value = foo()
  console.log('serving stuff', value)
  res.end("Hello, world " + value)
}

// foo.js
export default () {
  return 'foo value'
}

then just micro index.js or micro-dev index.js

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I, too, am waiting for a normal decision and while I launch it as:

$ ./node_modules/.bin/babel-node ./node_modules/.bin/micro-dev ...

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Use a build tool like Gulp or Webpack + Babel that transpiles and bundles your source code into a directory and then do: micro-dev <output-dir>

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thanks for answering.

this is probably overkill just to get micro-dev. i hoped there was a more elegant solution. like in the Minimum Viable Async example from rauchg: https://gist.github.com/pid/e922b18a944184d881e5164120db2a65

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Async and await work on the latest Node.js version by default. The readme shows this...

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Yea... 😊 As the repo states it, at the current state of Node.js (which supports most of ES2015 already), transpilation doesn‘t make much sense server-side.

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