You can use Babel with node on the back end. See https://babeljs.io/docs/usage/require/ https://babeljs.io/docs/usage/require/. Definitely not the most ideal so

You can use Babel with node on the back end. See https://babeljs.io/docs/usage/require/ https://babeljs.io/docs/usage/require/. Definitely not the most ideal solution, but it allows you to easily transition into ES6 when all the features land in node.