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Using ES6 on Electron app with io.js

I am writing cross-platform application with electron. I want to be enable ES6 arrow-function feature in main process using like iojs --harmony_arrow_functions.

Electron already installed successfully on io.js 3.1.0 .

How I can do it with io.js?

Solution

  • If you go to the electron releases, in major/minor release notes you can see which version of nodejs it is using: https://github.com/atom/electron/releases/tag/v0.36.0

    • Upgrade to Node 5.1.1.

    I'm not totally sure which version of node arrow functions first became available but I can confirm that they are available in the latest version, 5.2.0.

    Relatedly, to easily switch between versions of node I highly recommend using nvm: https://github.com/creationix/nvm

    That way you can easily switch to match updated versions of electron and you can automate it quite easily as well.