Compiling

• Certain features require polyfills. See here for the exact list: https://babeljs.io/docs/usage/caveats/#polyfills

• In order to get this functionality, you have several options:

  • For applications

    • Use babel-polyfill: add it to your project (yarn add babel-polyfill) and include it before all other code

  • For libraries

    • Use transform-runtime instead:

      yarn add --dev babel-plugin-transform-runtime
      yarn add babel-runtime
      

Using Babel with Node.js

1. Get the version of node you have installed

   node --version
   

2. Install babel-cli and the appropriate preset

   npm install --save-dev babel-cli babel-preset-node8
   

3. Update your package.json to call babel-node instead of node

     "scripts": {
       "start": "babel-node . --presets node8",