So sad! Has anyone had any luck using Babel to con...
# suitescriptt
Tyler
04/02/2019, 3:44 PMSo sad! Has anyone had any luck using Babel to convert from ES6 to ES5 and running it in NetSuite?
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texmc
04/02/2019, 3:55 PMour team has and it actually works well
texmc
04/02/2019, 3:56 PMI haven't walk through the config and not familiar enough with babel
texmc
04/02/2019, 3:56 PMbut we code in es6 and load up to Netsuite in es5
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stalbert
04/02/2019, 3:56 PMwe have been using TypeScript for years to do the same (and get strong typing, of course)
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cja
04/02/2019, 3:59 PM@stalbert My understanding is that you run something to compile your TS to JS. This produces output JS files. How do you then upload these to NS?
cja
04/02/2019, 4:00 PMI use WebStorm with the SuiteCloud IDE plugin and I use the feature it provides to upload files from WebStorm to NS
cja
04/02/2019, 4:01 PMWould I have to make my JS output directory part of the project in WebStorm so that I can select the JS files and upload them to NS?
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stalbert
04/02/2019, 4:02 PMI used to upload files via a utilty, lately I've fallen back to just uploading using the file cabinet UI while the webstorm plugin gets better at doing it
stalbert
04/02/2019, 4:02 PMI have been experimenting with using SDF cli to upload the files, and having TS output to the SDF folder
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cja
04/02/2019, 4:03 PMok. I use the plugin and then if it fails once I start navigating to the file cabinet while it tries the second time and if it fails the second time then I upload it in the file cabinet UI
cja
04/02/2019, 4:04 PMDoes that way (SDF cli) work well?
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stalbert
04/02/2019, 4:06 PMit's working OK so far. I don't have a lot of faith in the webstorm UI plugin yet.
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Tyler
04/02/2019, 4:09 PMI'd like to start using Babel or TypeScript to convert ES6 code to ES5, but I'm worried how other developers on the team would interact with it.
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cja
04/02/2019, 4:11 PM@Tyler Be a pioneer, not their prisoner :)
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Tyler
04/02/2019, 4:12 PM@cja You're right!
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cja
04/02/2019, 4:13 PM@stalbert There may be hope: https://netsuiteprofessionals.slack.com/archives/C42JX79UZ/p1553792393016700
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jkabot
04/02/2019, 4:22 PMI use a gulp task to convert ts / es6+ sources to js and upload the files to the netsuite file cabinet.
@michoel has an example one here https://gist.github.com/michoelchaikin/e84bc97bc51fbe830a1d1273907dc27c
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stalbert
04/02/2019, 4:24 PMI haven't found the need to reach for gulp - TSC (the typescript compiler) is all I've needed so far for normal scripting.
stalbert
04/02/2019, 4:26 PMand while I don't mind a nice GUI plugin, I'm more likely to continue using the sdf cli because it's more flexible - if it is what I'd use if I did introduce automation/gulp tasks around all this stuff.
stalbert
04/02/2019, 4:27 PMwhat I miss from my old upload utility is the ability to press a single keyboard shortcut to upload the current focused editor file in webstorm - and it did so in <1second typically.
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cja
04/02/2019, 4:34 PMThe SuiteCloud IDE plugin for WebStorm has a single keyboard shortcut for uploading, but it takes way longer than 1 second for me per file. Apparently this is because there are thousands of files in the file cabinet
cja
04/02/2019, 4:34 PMAlso it fails silently about 10% of the time but there is another keyboard shortcut that diffs the local and remote files which I always use to confirm success
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stalbert
04/02/2019, 4:38 PMthat second shortcut sounds handy
stalbert
04/02/2019, 4:39 PMthe sdfcli 'uploadfiles' is also slow. slower than uploading by hand with the file cabinet UI, which I find astonishing
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