Universe Modules: use ES6 / ES2015 modules in Meteor today!

I just cloned this repo and added a line to check if ES6 syntax was supported

console.log(`In JavaScript '\n' is a line-feed.`)   
//-> `Unexpected token ILLEGAL`

or

var [a, , b] = [1,2,3];     //-> Unexpected token [

is there something else that needs to be done to enable ES6 syntax?