With the release of Node 6.0.0, the surface of code that needs transpilation to use ES6 features has been reduced very dramatically.
This is what my current workflow looks like to set up a minimalistic and fast microservice using micro and async + await.
| /* Author: Akshay Shekher | |
| * | |
| * build: valac --pkg gio-unix-2.0 --pkg libgnome-menu-3.0 -X -DGMENU_I_KNOW_THIS_IS_UNSTABLE applist.vala | |
| * run: ./applist gnome-applications.menu | |
| * or ./applist pantheon-applications.menu | |
| */ | |
| int main(string[] args) { | |
| if (args.length < 2) { | |
| print ("Please specify the file to load\n"); |