babel: "import path from 'path';" error

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I set up a new project to use Google’s Web Toolkit framework, which uses babel in its gulpfile.

All looks good, but I get this error ` $ gulp e2e-test [09:01:05] Requiring external module babel-register CWD/gulpfile.babel.js:27 import path from ‘path’; ^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected reserved word at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16) at Module._compile (module.js:373:25) at loader (CWD/node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:158:5) `

The cause: I need a .babelrc file to make it work.

From the babel website, (https://babeljs.io/docs/setup/#installation) $ echo '{ "presets": ["es2015"] }' > .babelrc

and now all is good.