Generate node.js compatible modules

[vsmenon]

This has been suggested a few times. Opening this as a tracker.

Some blockers:

• ES6 (though we now run on io.js with @ochafik 's changes)
• Plugging into node's modules (see integrate with existing JS module systems #284)
• dart:io and friends ... no JS implementation for these (edit by @jmesserly -- split this into passing generic function literals #426)

[jmesserly]

IMO, ES6 isn't really a blocker ... nodejs is going to support it. So it's a backporting issue: do we want to support older node versions, or do we want this before nodejs is finished with ES6. But in that case, could we just use an existing ES6->5 transpiler for that?

dart:io and friends ... no JS implementation for these

yeah. tricky part there is I'm not sure how the test coverage is for dart:io these days. Used to be not great. I guess Pub covers it pretty well though, so maybe Pub's tests can work as a dart:io test suite.

[devoncarew]

Adding the atom label to this. It's not a blocking issue - I'm able to use the existing module system w/ some code-gen - but we've talked about it enough in the context of atom that I thought I'd add the tag.

[jmesserly]

Adding the atom label to this. It's not a blocking issue - I'm able to use the existing module system w/ some code-gen - but we've talked about it enough in the context of atom that I thought I'd add the tag.

yeah, +1. Even if you can work around it, we should still make it so you don't have to/can get rid of the workaround :)

[jmesserly]

Fixed in 393c2b3 🎉

[jmesserly]

I'll open a bug for dart:io node wrapper.

[jmesserly]

#436 for dart:io