Update node version 8, 9??

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Pimatic currently only supports node v4.*, is there any update on making pimatic work with version 8 or 9?

For example I was figuring out creating a plugin for the Xiaomi gateway, but the node packages I found needed a newer version of node.

example: https://github.com/marvinroger/node-lumi-aqara, doesn’t work on node v4.

Hi @sweebee

Yes, some progress has been made … see https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/3146/pimatic-node-8-0

It is still progressing slowly as I am busy at the moment and I don’t have much time for development. @amit-patel and @michbeck100 have also been investigating this
to some extent as you can read on the other thread. The biggest hurdle for me currently is the refactoring of the plugin management functions

@sweebee With very little effort, you can use those libraries in node4. I was able to get the example.js script running without errors in about 4 minutes. So a lack of a current node version shouldn’t stop you from creating plugins. This won’t work with every library out there, but the any, like this one, that have no dependencies, it should be trivial. Just follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository locally
2. cd into the folder, then npm install --save-dev babel-cli babel-preset-env
3. create a file called .babelrc and paste in the following:

{
  "presets": [
    [
      "env",
      {
        "targets": {
          "node": "4"
        },
        "include": [
          "transform-es2015-arrow-functions",
          "transform-es2015-classes",
          "es6.map"
        ],
        "debug": true
      }
    ]
  ]
}

4. using the node-lumi-aquara repository as an example, run npx babel src --out-dir build
   This will compile the contents of directory src to a node4 friendly version in build.
5. Then copy the contents of the directory into your project folder, and require it directly.
   That’s it.

if you haven’t already installed npx, just do npm install -g npx

Let me know if you have issues.

@sweebee why not try my pimatic branch for node > v6? It would be great if we get some more progress on this topic. Most of the time there is not much to do for plugin developers. As I don’t use every plugin out there I haven’t tested them all. But I guess it’s the same as with the version bump from 0.8 to 0.9. Not all plugins were supported in the first place.

Is there a working version for 6 or 8?

My plugin pimatic-nefit stopped working because a dep needs node 6. The old version doesn’t work anymore.

@sweebee At least there is no official working version, yet.

Any development ongoing??