Linux brackets shell doesn't support generators?

[mackenza]

carrying on from https://groups.google.com/forum/?nomobile=true#!topic/brackets-dev/lxMADzwDoWk

I found in the gulpfile.js that you are excepting generators from babel:

// options for transpiling es6 to es5
var babelOptions = {
  // generators are available in Brackets' shell and also break sourcemaps
  blacklist: ['regenerator', 'strict']
};

yet on Linux, where I am trying to run this, the function* is causing an error unexpected token which leads me to believe that perhaps the version of CFE that Linux uses may not support generators? (it's just a guess at this point)

[mackenza]

I changed the blacklist to the following:

// options for transpiling es6 to es5
var babelOptions = {
  // generators are available in Brackets' shell and also break sourcemaps
  blacklist: [] // ['regenerator', 'strict']
};

and I get past the above error. Now I get an error: Extension] failed to load /home/mackenza/.config/Brackets/extensions/user/brackets-npm-registry - ReferenceError: regeneratorRuntime is not defined

still plugging away ;)

[mackenza]

So I entered navigator.userAgent in the Brackets devTools and got:

"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.80 Safari/537.36" so it appears that Linux, at least, is running Chrome 29.x and therefore doesn't support Javascript generators, which according to MDN are in 39 and later.

[mackenza]

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/brackets-dev/0dXM-I3CzRk I am wondering with the shift of resources from adobe for this project if this will get addressed any time soon? It's already 4 months old :(

[zaggino]

This is an easy fix for linux, I totally forgot about the generators issue, I'll fix this as soon as I get to work. No worries.

[zaggino]

@mackenza can you test now please? see my latest commit for this issue

[mackenza]

it worked, I think. I installed your ES6 Hello World extension, but I am not quite sure what it's supposed to do ;)

[zaggino]

es6-hello-world does exactly what it says it does, logs hello-world to the console :smile:

what matters is a proof of concept here, you can install a thing from npm, get dependencies downloaded, get gulp tasks executed ... much better than with current brackets' inbuilt extension manager ... and you get the stability of npm too

[mackenza]

Do you get "no linter for javascript" on the files in your repo? (in Brackets that is)

[mackenza]

the same changes would need to be made to es6 hello world as I get a generator error again.

[zaggino]

this repo uses eslint for linting, it's configured in .brackets.json file you can install eslint through this extension, latest version is in the npm

[zaggino]

yeah, I'm already updating es6-hello-world with these changes https://github.com/zaggino/brackets-es6-hello-world/commit/9f0d91df973ce5f860b93f8323811153cd4d6373