Use a front-end bundler.

[danasilver]

Some choices:

• Rollup
• Webpack
• Browserify

In conjunction with Babel.

It's becoming really difficult to manage everything on the front-end. Being able to require, import, export ES6 modules would be a huge improvement.

I've been against transpiling JS for a long time because it can greatly increase the "space" between the code you write and the code that's running and because of the amount of configuration required.

That considered, I think it would help this project stay organized. Few large projects these days don't use one of those bundlers and Babel.

[danasilver]

Started work here: eece69f

Needs backbone.iobind exposed as a requireable npm module.

Using babel with es2015 and browserify. I already like not having the middguard global, being able to keep all dependencies in npm, less work to figure out what files depend on each other. This is nice.

[danasilver]

Turns out we don't need backbone.iobind to expose anything. This works:

require('backbone.iobind/dist/backbone.iobind')

Needs underscore and socket.io-client required before though.