Gulp recently implemented ES6 within gulpfiles and I'm kinda in love. All you have to do get started is: Upgrade your local and global Gulp installations to 3.9.0 (npm upgrade gulp && npm upgrade -g gulp) Add babel to package.json (npm install -D babel) Rename your gulpfile to "gulpfile.babel.js" You're done! Start writing ES6 in your Gulp configuration An example is below.