Why does es6 work?

Question

Node.js

Explain to a stupid newbie, don't you need a transpiler to make es6 work?
Why does es6 work in console mode, although I didn’t install anything extra, and even the node is even version 7.5.0?

Answer 1

The transpiler is not needed for es6 to work. A transpiler is needed to convert code written in es6 to es5 code, because not all browsers understand es6. nodejs supports es6 almost 100% see here