"unexpected token import" in Nodejs5 and babel?

Question

In js file, i used import to instead of require

import co from 'co';

And tried to run it directly by nodejs since it said import is 'shipping features' and support without any runtime flag (https://nodejs.org/en/docs/es6/), but i got an error

import co from 'co';
^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token import

Then i tried to use babel

npm install -g babel-core
npm install -g babel-cli
npm install babel-core //install to babel locally, is it necessary?

and run by

babel-node js.js

still got same error, unexpected token import?

How could I get rid of it?

Answer 1

From the babel 6 Release notes:

Since Babel is focusing on being a platform for JavaScript tooling and not an ES2015 transpiler, we’ve decided to make all of the plugins opt-in. This means when you install Babel it will no longer transpile your ES2015 code by default.

In my setup I installed the es2015 preset

npm install --save-dev babel-preset-es2015

or with yarn

yarn add babel-preset-es2015 --dev

and enabled the preset in my .babelrc

{
  "presets": ["es2015"]
}