Class constructors cannot be invoked without 'new'

Question

Just upgraded to node 4.1.2 and using Mongorito (which uses ES6) to access Mongo and I'm getting this:

Model file:

var Mongorito = require('mongorito');
var Model = Mongorito.Model;
var config = require('../config/config');
Mongorito.connect(config.mongo.url);

class Listing extends Model {}

module.exports = Listing;

And I'm including it:

var Listing = require('../models/listing');
var listing = yield Listing.where('cacheKey', key).findOne();

TypeError: Class constructors cannot be invoked without 'new'
      at Listing.Model (/node_modules/mongorito/lib/mongorito.js:140:15)
      at new Listing (/models/listing.js:7:14)
      at Query.find (/node_modules/mongorito/lib/query.js:355:21)
      at [object Generator].next (native)
      at onFulfilled (/node_modules/koa/node_modules/co/index.js:65:19)
      at run (/node_modules/babel/node_modules/babel-core/node_modules/core-js/modules/es6.promise.js:89:39)
      at /node_modules/babel/node_modules/babel-core/node_modules/core-js/modules/es6.promise.js:100:28
      at flush (/node_modules/babel/node_modules/babel-core/node_modules/core-js/modules/$.microtask.js:17:13)
      at doNTCallback0 (node.js:408:9)
      at process._tickCallback (node.js:337:13)

Answer 1

This is because Babel's transpiled ES6 classes cannot be used to extend a real ES6 class. If you want to use mongorito, you would have to blacklist Babel's es6.classes transform so that your Listing class was also a native ES6 class.