This just might work

gulpfile.js

@@ -1,24 +1,55 @@
-var gulp = require("gulp");
+var gulp = require("gulp"),
-sourcemaps = require("gulp-sourcemaps"),
+  source = require('vinyl-source-stream'),
-  babel = require("gulp-babel"),
+  buffer = require('vinyl-buffer'),
+  sourcemaps = require("gulp-sourcemaps"),
   concat = require("gulp-concat"),
-  connect = require('gulp-connect');
+  connect = require('gulp-connect'),
+  browserify = require('browserify'),
+  watchify = require('watchify'),
+  babel = require('babelify');
 
-gulp.task("default", ['build'], function () {
+
-});
+function compile(watch) {
+  var bundler = watchify(browserify()
+  .require('./src/index.js', {
+    entry: true,
+    expose: 'ionic-native'
+  })
+  .transform(babel, {presets: ['es2015']}));
+
+  function rebundle() {
+    bundler.bundle()
+      .on('error', function(err) { console.error(err); this.emit('end'); })
+      .pipe(source('ionic-native.js'))
+      .pipe(buffer())
+      .pipe(sourcemaps.init({ loadMaps: true }))
+      .pipe(sourcemaps.write('./'))
+      .pipe(gulp.dest('./dist'));
+  }
+
+  if (watch) {
+    bundler.on('update', function() {
+      console.log('-> bundling...');
+      rebundle();
+    });
+  }
+
+  rebundle();
+}
+
+function watch() {
+  return compile(true);
+}
+
+gulp.task("default", ['build'], function () { });
 
 gulp.task('build', function() {
-  return gulp.src("src/**/*.js")
+  return compile();
-    .pipe(sourcemaps.init())
-    .pipe(babel())
-    .pipe(concat("ionic-native.js"))
-    .pipe(sourcemaps.write("."))
-    .pipe(gulp.dest("dist"));
 });
 
-gulp.task('test', ['build', 'serve'], function() {
+gulp.task('watch', function() {
-
+  return watch();
-})
+});
 
 gulp.task('serve', function() {
   connect.server({

package.json

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+{
+  "name": "ionic-native",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "description": "Native plugins to replace ngCordova",
+  "main": "gulpfile.js",
+  "directories": {
+    "test": "test"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.1.18",
+    "babelify": "^7.2.0",
+    "browserify": "^12.0.1",
+    "gulp": "^3.9.0",
+    "gulp-concat": "^2.6.0",
+    "gulp-connect": "^2.2.0",
+    "gulp-sourcemaps": "^1.6.0",
+    "vinyl-buffer": "^1.0.0",
+    "vinyl-source-stream": "^1.1.0",
+    "watchify": "^3.6.1",
+    "gulp-babel": "^6.1.0",
+    "gulp-serve": "^1.2.0"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "babel-preset-stage-0": "^6.1.18"
+  },
+  "scripts": {
+    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
+  },
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-native.git"
+  },
+  "author": "",
+  "license": "ISC",
+  "bugs": {
+    "url": "https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-native/issues"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-native"
+}

src/cordova.js

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+const promisifyCordova = (pluginName, methodName) => {
+  return (...args) => {
+    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+      if(!window.cordova) {
+        console.warn('Cordova: tried calling', '"' + pluginName + '.' + methodName + '"', 'but Cordova is not defined. Please make sure you have cordova.js included in your index.html file and you are running in a proper cordova environment');
+        reject({
+          error: 'cordova_not_available'
+        });
+        return;
+      }
+      cordova.exec(resolve, reject, pluginName, methodName, args);
+    })
+  }
+}
+
+export {promisifyCordova};

src/index.js

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import {Plugins} from './plugins';
+import {PluginConfig} from './plugin-config'
+import {promisifyCordova} from './cordova';
+
+class IonicNative {
+  constructor() {
+    let pluginData, promised;
+    for(let plugin in PluginConfig) {
+
+      pluginData = PluginConfig[plugin];
+      console.log('Plugin', plugin, pluginData);
+
+      promised = pluginData.promise;
+
+      for(let method of promised) {
+
+
+        let p = promisifyCordova(plugin, method)
+        p().then((resp) => {
+          console.log('Thing');
+        })
+      }
+
+    }
+  }
+
+}
+
+
+let Native = new IonicNative;
+
+export default Native;
+
+// Because require isn't exporting properly, who the fuck knows
+window.IonicNative = Native

src/plugin-config.js

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+export var PluginConfig = {
+  "camera": {
+    'name': 'Camera',
+    'plugin': 'cordova-plugin-camera',
+    "promise": ["takePicture"],
+  }
+}

src/plugins.js

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
-export var Native = {
+
-  thing: true,
+export var Plugins = {
-};
+  getPlugin(name) {
+    return name;
+  }
+}

test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+require=(function e(t,n,r){function s(o,u){if(!n[o]){if(!t[o]){var a=typeof require=="function"&&require;if(!u&&a)return a(o,!0);if(i)return i(o,!0);var f=new Error("Cannot find module '"+o+"'");throw f.code="MODULE_NOT_FOUND",f}var l=n[o]={exports:{}};t[o][0].call(l.exports,function(e){var n=t[o][1][e];return s(n?n:e)},l,l.exports,e,t,n,r)}return n[o].exports}var i=typeof require=="function"&&require;for(var o=0;o<r.length;o++)s(r[o]);return s})({"/src/index.js":[function(require,module,exports){
+
+class Native {
+
+}
+
+console.log('Doing a thing');
+
+
+
+export default Native;
+
+},{}]},{},["/src/index.js"]);

test/app/app.js

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+console.log(window.require);

test/app/index.html

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 <html>
   <head>
     <script src="../../dist/ionic-native.js"></script>
+    <script src="app.js"></script>
   </head>
   <body>
     <h2>Test</h2>