Required Node.js version? about react-slingshot HOT 7 CLOSED

Great point. I just replaced the arrow func with an anonymous function. Can you please try again and confirm you're good? I did not intend to use ES6 features in the build tools. I want to assure older versions of Node can run this. Thanks for reporting this!

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Tested today on ubuntu with nodejs 0.10, it just won't work.
See webpack-contrib/css-loader#144 (comment)

ERROR in ./~/css-loader!./~/sass-loader!./src/styles/styles.scss
Module build failed: ReferenceError: Promise is not defined
    at LazyResult.async (/home/user/dev/webapp/node_modules/css-loader/node_modules/postcss/lib/lazy-result.js:157:31)
    at LazyResult.then (/home/user/dev/webapp/node_modules/css-loader/node_modules/postcss/lib/lazy-result.js:79:21)
    at processCss (/home/user/dev/webapp/node_modules/css-loader/lib/processCss.js:198:5)
    at Object.module.exports (/home/user/dev/webapp/node_modules/css-loader/lib/loader.js:24:2)
 @ ./src/styles/styles.scss 4:14-123 13:2-17:4 14:20-129

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Thanks guys - I'm still trying to determine the minimum Node version this currently supports as is. Do you have a suggestion for an easy way to figure that out?

.10 is quite old as it was released nearly 3 years ago: 2013-03-11. I can add the promise polyfill, but I hate to add another dependency to fix an issue on a 3 year old release. Enlighten me - Is there a good reason to support versions this old? Since this is a framework for new development, wouldn't someone logically want to utilize a recent version of Node as well? Certainly open to a dialog on this.

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0.10 is in used in Ubuntu since the very beginning of the package. Next release (Xenial) is jumping to Node 4.2.4 (see http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=nodejs )

You're on the bleeding edge of software development, you don't have to support back compatibility. It's up to you to define the minimum requirements.

I strongly suggest that you enhance the README with this minimal requirement and point a friendly mean of installing up-to-date NodeJs implementation. For instance https://github.com/nodesource/distributions

Your starter kit is intended for developer audience. You can assume that we are capable of installing a fixed version of node to match the kit.

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Thanks for the advice. Makes sense. So you're saying if I set requirements at 4.2.4, those on Linux should still be able to use this?

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The official node site has good information on installing node v4 and v5 on various Linux distros: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/

Also, anyone doing regular node dev work would likely want a node version manager (like nvm).

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I've noted 4.0.0 as the minimum version in the Readme. Thanks for the input everyone!

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