require-compiled

require-compiled

require-compiled works just like regular require, except it allows you to require code written in newer versions of JS. Just add a .babelrc file to your project and you're good to go!

  // Read babel options our of your .babelrc:
  var requireCompiled = require('require-compiled');
  var myModule = requireCompiled('./my-module');
  var myModulePath = requireCompiled.resolve('./my-module');

  // Instead of using a .babelrc, you can also pass in your babel options explicitly:
  var requireCompiled = require('require-compiled').babelOptions({ ... });

Only the module directly required this way gets compiled. To compile some of its dependencies as well, mark them with a compile! flag:

  var myChildModule = require('compile!./child')

Behind the scenes the the modules required this way are compiled into a cache directory. Because of this, require-compiled does not need to load require hooks into your node process. require-compiled does load node-source-map-support to give you nice stack traces in your errors.

Thanks

The code of the amazing ava testrunner was a great inspiration and guide for this module.