Opinion on converting the addon to ES6/Typescript?

[cibernox]

I'd like to update pretender to work with fetch but as it is right now the codebase feels a messy (read: I'm so used to ES6 I can't even read Pretender.prototype. anymore).

I'm thinking that a good plan could be to add a build that compiles the sourcecode with babel (perhaps even TS). That would also make easier to accomplish any refactor with certain guarantees.

Would you favor a re-write in ES6 or TS (+ drop Phantomjs?)

[cibernox]

/cc @trek @rwjblue @samselikoff

[samselikoff]

I'd defer to @trek, fine by me but I haven't worked on the source. Fwiw I want to do something like this in Mirage soonish too.

[givanse]

Some work has been done:

TypeScript type definitions #223

[givanse]

I've opened:

Add a build step and produce ES and CJS files. #240

[givanse]

Since v3.0.1 native ES6 classes are distributed. I think this issue can be closed now.

[xg-wang]

It is distributed as ES module, but I think @cibernox also mentioned pretender source should also be written in TS/es6+