Docgen is broken on beta because dgeni doesn't understand es6

[sjelin]

So basically it can't parse stuff like class

[heathkit]

Well, that's a bummer. We can just switch the tsconfig to output es5, but that means no native promises.

[sjelin]

I mean, we could npm install @types/es6-promise, but I'd prefer not to add a million hacks. I guess we might have to though...

[jan-molak]

Just a thought, but promises seem to be pretty well supported on Node 4 and up, and Protractor requires 4.2.x anyway. Could you potentially target es5 but include the es2015.promise lib, convincing tsc that it's safe to proceed?

This would make the compilerOptions section of the tsconfig.json look like this:

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "target": "es5",
        "lib": [ "es5", "es2015.promise" ],
   
        ...
    }
}

One caveat is that lib requires TypeScript 2.1 I think.

[juliemr]

Here is a branch that is generating the website using the strategy of compiling to es5 and fixing up everything else :)

https://github.com/juliemr/protractor/tree/quickfix-website

We'll probably use this for the 5.0 release, and then get generation from TS working for later versions.

[sjelin]

Fixed by #4040