| 1 | // DEVELOPMENT BABEL SHIM
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| 2 | // =============================================================================
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| 3 | // Use babel-register to JIT transpile the ES6/ES7 code in the webapp. It's
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| 4 | // essentially a convenience shim, otherwise all webapp code would have to be
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| 5 | // written Node compatible (annoying), not rendered serverside (bad for SEO), or
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| 6 | // transpiled and then served (slow for development).
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| 7 |
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| 8 | const path = require('path');
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| 9 |
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| 10 | let config;
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| 11 |
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| 12 | try {
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| 13 | // Worth noting that the .babelrc specified in this file is slightly different
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| 14 | // from what the webpack config specifies. This is due to the webpack-hmr
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| 15 | // transform needing to be present in the babel loader, but not in the server.
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| 16 |
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| 17 | config = JSON.parse(require('fs').readFileSync('.babelrc')); // eslint-disable-line global-require
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| 18 | } catch (error) {
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| 19 | console.error('Error parsing .babelrc: ', error);
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| 20 | }
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| 21 |
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| 22 | require('babel-register')(config);
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| 23 | require('babel-polyfill');
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| 24 |
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| 25 | process.argv.forEach((val) => {
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| 26 | if (val.startsWith('--entry=')) {
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| 27 | require(path.resolve(val.split('=').pop())); // eslint-disable-line
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| 28 | }
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| 29 | });
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