volo

You've probably already seen this, but volo can do something similar to what you propose. Might be worth looking at as a reference for work on es6-module-transpiler: https://github.com/volojs/volo/blob/master/commands/amdify/d...

Seems like it will only help the very first part of making a web app, where you have to set up directories and libraries and such (scaffolding.) There is a package manager, but you could also use something like [Volo](https://github.com/volojs/volo).

This looks very promising! JavaScript badly needs a package manager and the community badly needs to agree on a module format (AMD). Do you think that will happen? How can we make that happen? Every other language has package managers.. ruby has gems and bundler, node has npm, java has maven. That makes it so easy to develop any application or library that can be used by any other application or library. ClientSide JavaScript finally has an amazing way to manage dependencies and build modular applications (AMD). All it needs now is a good package manager for being able to split large applications into individual components and manage external library dependencies. I want to be able to configure jQuery, Backbone, jQuery plugins, Backbone plugins, any other JS library, my own subcomponents as dependencies, use them via AMD's require and opt

Another project to check out: https://github.com/volojs/volo Volo is arguably more established and written by the same guy who wrote require.js. It's still early in development, but is already very good. EDIT: From a quick glance, it seems like volo works better with existing javascript libraries too. Volo's add/install command simply uses github's search API to find any existing project and can install it (it also supports other URL formats).