wzrd.in but as a scoped npm registry instead of a cdn

[forivall]

A service like https://github.com/browserify/wzrd.in (browserify as a service), but instead of browserifying, uses babel to transpile it to es5 (or an option of environment with babel-preset-env). So, a package like whatwg-url would be installed via

# one time setup
npm config set @es5ify:registry https://es5ify.io

npm install @es5ify/whatwg-url

and scope names would remove the @ and replace the / with -- (like @angular/cli -> angular--cli, which i think is unused enough. or make the custom registry support some character that is allowed to be installed by the cli but not by the official registry (uppercase? starting with an underscore?)

Inspired by the issue seen at jsdom/whatwg-url#105

[ewnd9]

Wonderful idea 👍 As an alternative naming: @angular/cli => @angular/cli-es5 or even @angular/cli-transpiled-es5 / @angular/cli-transpiled-node0-10 (babel-preset-env case)

Also for reference: sindresorhus/ama#446

[forivall]

@ewnd9 the proposed naming you suggest wouldn't work unless you made the registry completely a mirror, and that would require all package installs to go through that mirror (at least the metadata, not sure about the protocol if the tgz can come from a different server), which would force the maintainer of this service to have higher bandwidth needs. putting everything under a scope allows only the transpiled packages to be fetched from the es5 transpiler registry (which is what npm config set @es5ify:registry https://es5ify.io does)

[Qix-]

I've actually told CDNJS that this is the only way they're going to stay relevant moving forward (see cdnjs/cdnjs#8531 (comment))

[nektro]

Except ES6 is supported and the official ECMAScript way to handle modules. You are expected as a module developer to either compile or distribute browser-ready code if you want any of your modules to be use on the Web "moving forward"

[Richienb]

I think it might be best to create an NPM org and upload browserified bundles there. @org/name would become @es5ify/org__name and name would become @es5ify/name