text: /**
   * Created by kgrube on 5/2/2017.
   */
  //  enable runtime transpilation to use ES6/7 in node
  
  const fs = require('fs');
  
  const babelrc = fs.readFileSync('./.babelrc');
  let config;
  
  try {
    config = JSON.parse(babelrc);
  } catch (err) {
    console.error('==>     ERROR: Error parsing your .babelrc.');
    console.error(err);
  }
  
  require('babel-register')(config);
  