Rewrite to ES6

[davixyz]

Had a talk with @dbanksdesign and basically we could start migrating the library little by little to use ES6 features. Of course this needs some infrastructure work (that I would love to do) and also to take some decisions about how do we do this. Opening this issue to start the conversation for this.

Some Thoughts

• Some of the features are already available in node 6 and node 8, probably the most important ones we would want like template literals, spreads, destructuring etc
• Replacing and using arrow functions everywhere might be tricky because of how style dictionary API has been designed with this in mind
• A build system will be required to ship the code for older versions

Some build systems

• Webpack: https://webpack.js.org/guides/author-libraries/
• Rollup: https://rollupjs.org/guide/en

[vvscode]

There is https://github.com/5to6/5to6

I'm ready to do it

[chazzmoney]

Thats cool! I didn't know that was even a thing that existed.

If you are ready, go for it. Otherwise I can take a look next week.

[chazzmoney]

Probably best done in conjunction with #154.

I think we should wait on this until we merge #169 before doing this.

[vvscode]

So I'm waiting for merge #169 to make this one and #154

To which branch?

[dbanksdesign]

develop-3.0

[vvscode]

@dbanksdesign @chazzmoney are you going to merge develop to develop-3.0 ?

[chazzmoney]

Yes, sorry for the delay. Going to try to get #158 and #152 merged into develop in the next couple days and then merge develop into develop-3.0

[dbanksdesign]

develop-3.0 is now up to date with develop

[chazzmoney]

Promise to get #152 merged soon - almost there. Thanks for your patience @vvscode.

[dbanksdesign]

#500 is the beginnings of this

[dbanksdesign]

@chazzmoney you think we can close this?

[davixyz]

If this is finished, we should close it! Hello everyone!

[dbanksdesign]

This is done (for the most part)! Closing!