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@babel/plugin-transform-modules-commonjs
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This plugin transforms ES2015 modules to CommonJS
See our website @babel/plugin-transform-modules-commonjs for more information.
Using npm:
npm install --save-dev @babel/plugin-transform-modules-commonjs
or using yarn:
yarn add @babel/plugin-transform-modules-commonjs --dev
The 'esm' package is a lightweight runtime that allows you to load ES modules in Node.js. It differs from @babel/plugin-transform-modules-commonjs in that it doesn't require a build step and can directly execute ES modules in Node.js.
The '@rollup/plugin-commonjs' package is a plugin for Rollup that converts CommonJS modules into ES6 modules that Rollup can then bundle. It serves a similar purpose but is specific to the Rollup bundler, whereas @babel/plugin-transform-modules-commonjs is more general-purpose and can be used with various build tools that support Babel.
The 'babel-plugin-transform-es2015-modules-commonjs' package is an older Babel plugin that also transforms ES6 modules to CommonJS. It has been superseded by @babel/plugin-transform-modules-commonjs, which is part of the Babel 7 release.
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This plugin transforms ES2015 modules to CommonJS
The npm package @babel/plugin-transform-modules-commonjs receives a total of 27,562,464 weekly downloads. As such, @babel/plugin-transform-modules-commonjs popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @babel/plugin-transform-modules-commonjs demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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