Is 6-to-library worth spreading the word? about website

[sebmck]

Actually as of babel/babel#379 the AMD/UMD module formatter exports directly with defaults. 6to5 was going to add support for globals (see babel/babel#119 (comment)) but there were various issues associated with it.

[tomek-he-him]

Alright, now looking at your tests it seems like I have picked up something you had been working on in parallel. Bad luck :)

BTW, it's a lot cleaner than my solution. Impressive how quickly 6to5 develops. Thumbs up!

[sebmck]

Thanks for your work though @tomekwi! I'll check out your globals stuff as I haven't currently implemented that and I'd be interested to see how it works.

[tomek-he-him]

@sebmck, I've simply chosen to name the export/import after the filename. This approach isn't explicit, but works out of the box – also when you have mutiple modules in your app.

When you need to import a library by another name, you use the syntax import _ from "lodash". I think it's quite natural, just as import $ from "jquery" or import m from "mithril" anyway.

You can still import {default as _} from "lodash" if you really want the global.lodash.