Use the ES6 import in Node.js

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 

– 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"); 

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"); } 

To test the output:

node starters.js