@babel/plugin-transform-unicode-property-regex

What is @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-property-regex?

The @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-property-regex package is a plugin for Babel, a JavaScript compiler, that transforms Unicode property escapes in regular expressions into a set of Unicode code points, allowing developers to write more readable and maintainable regular expressions for Unicode characters. This plugin is especially useful when targeting environments that do not support the latest ECMAScript standards.

What are @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-property-regex's main functionalities?

Transform Unicode Property Escapes

This code sample demonstrates how a Unicode property escape for matching any character in the Greek script is transformed into a regular expression that matches the equivalent set of Unicode code points.

/\p{Script=Greek}/u

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regexpu-core

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README

@babel/plugin-transform-unicode-property-regex

Compile Unicode property escapes in Unicode regular expressions to ES5.

See our website @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-property-regex for more information.

Install

Using npm:

npm install --save-dev @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-property-regex

or using yarn:

yarn add @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-property-regex --dev

Changelog

v7.22.3 (2023-05-27)

• Re-publish all the package published in 7.22.0 that hadn't been republished yet. We accidentally published them with a package.json file containing "type": "script" instead of "type": "commonjs" (#15664).