Node.js ES6 how to export class from module?

Question

I'm trying to export an ES6 class from a CommonJS module in Node.js 6.2.0

class MyClass{
    //class contents here
}

exports = MyClass;

Then import it in another module:

var MyClass = require('/path/to/module.js')
var instance = new MyClass();

However I'm getting the following exception:

TypeError: MyClass is not a constructor

How can I properly do it?

Please note that I'm not using Babel/Tranceur it's pure JS as implemented in the latest Node 6.2.0 which according to Kangax implements ES6 in 93%.

//Edit: this is not a problem with exports vs module.exports. While using exports alone I'm getting some object with __proto__ set.

Solution

You will need to assign to module.exports, not the local exports variable.

Comments

[Bergi]

@kubal5003: From that very article: "require returns an object, which references the value of module.exports for a given file". How is my answer wrong? Have you tried using module.exports = MyClass?

[Felix Kling]

@kubal5003: This answer is correct. If you don't believe that then you need to spend more time learning about Node/CommonJS modules.

[Sarath Kumar]

This worked for me. This should be accepted as solution.