You don't need all those tools. I'm a big fan of browserify and the budo development server. npm init npm install -g budo npm install --save-dev babelify

You don't need all those tools. I'm a big fan of browserify and the budo development server. npm init npm install -g budo npm install --save-dev babelify babel-preset-es2015 echo "console.log('hello world')" > index.js budo index.js --live -- -t [ babelify --presets [ es2015 ] ] Add tape for some tests and you're done.