disable "use strict" in babel config as it was broken in sprockets

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/config/webpack.config.js b/config/webpack.config.js
index 2fcf2e11450..da2a19838e4 100644
--- a/config/webpack.config.js
+++ b/config/webpack.config.js
@@ -47,7 +47,13 @@ var config = {
       {
         test: /\.es6$/,
         exclude: /node_modules/,
-        loader: 'babel-loader'
+        loader: 'babel-loader',
+        query: {
+          // "use strict" was broken in sprockets-es6 due to sprockets concatination method.
+          // many es5 strict errors which were never caught ended up in our es6 assets as a result.
+          // this hack is necessary until they can be fixed.
+          blacklist: ["useStrict"]
+        }
       },
       {
         test: /\.(js|es6)$/,