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@babel/plugin-transform-unicode-property-regex
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Compile Unicode property escapes in Unicode regular expressions to ES5.
Compile Unicode property escapes in Unicode regular expressions to ES5.
See our website @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-property-regex for more information.
Using npm:
npm install --save-dev @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-property-regex
or using yarn:
yarn add @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-property-regex --dev
The regexpu-core package is a regular expression polyfill that transforms Unicode property escapes and other modern RegExp features to be compatible with older JavaScript environments. It provides similar functionality to @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-property-regex but can be used independently of Babel.
This Babel plugin transforms new RegExp constructors to string literals to ensure compatibility with older environments. While it does not specifically target Unicode property escapes, it addresses the broader issue of RegExp compatibility which is a related concern.
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Compile Unicode property escapes in Unicode regular expressions to ES5.
The npm package @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-property-regex receives a total of 13,880,933 weekly downloads. As such, @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-property-regex popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-property-regex 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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