“unexpected token import” in Nodejs5 and babel?

Question

In js file, i used import to instead of require

import co from 'co';

And tried to run it directly by nodejs since it said import is 'shipping features' and support without any runtime flag (https://nodejs.org/en/docs/es6/), but i got an error

import co from 'co';
^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token import

Then i tried to use babel

npm install -g babel-core
npm install -g babel-cli
npm install babel-core //install to babel locally, is it necessary?

and run by

babel-node js.js

still got same error, unexpected token import?

How could I get rid of it?

Answer 1

In your app, you must declare your require() modules, not using the 'import' keyword:

const app = require("example_dependency");

Then, create a .babelrc file:

{
"presets": [ 
    ["es2015", { "modules": false }]
]
}

Then, in your gulpfile, be sure to declare your require() modules:

var gulp = require("gulp");