CoffeeScript 1.11.0 now supports ES6 modules

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Jeremy Ashkenas just announced that new version of CoffeeScript now supports ES6 import / export syntax. Also CS 2.0 is starting to cook.

Any words from MDG? Is it trivially to add support of CS 1.11.0 to Meteor?

UPD

Thanks to @GeoffreyBooth work is already in progress.

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Should be easy if someone submits a PR and adds a test or two for module support!

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It should . . :wink: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/pull/7818

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Looks awesome! Let’s get it in there!

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This is so cool, will definitely use this once it’s merged.

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Merged! @sashko, any idea when this might get released?

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Not sure - actually now that we have the ability to ship packages outside of the release cycle, I wonder if we could ship immediately!

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A simple version bump would make this possible right?

https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/coffeescript/package.js#L3

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Sure, I’m just referring to the fact that before Meteor 1.4.1 it was physically impossible to publish a “core” package without doing an entire new release of all of Meteor.

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Yeah, that’s a lot better!

So this should do the trick then :slight_smile:

Edit: merged!

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FYI, for anyone else coming across this, you can use CoffeeScript 1.11.1 in Meteor today. It’s as simple as:

meteor add coffeescript@1.11.1_1

See https://atmospherejs.com/meteor/coffeescript. Note that the version number of the Meteor package is not (necessarily) the same as the version number of CoffeeScript.

You can prove that it works by creating a coffee file in your project like this:

import { Meteor } from 'meteor/meteor'
console.log Meteor

You should see the Meteor object in the console.

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the docs right now are reflecting this new development!

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