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@babel/plugin-transform-unicode-regex
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- 8.0.0-alpha.15
- Version published
- Weekly downloads
- 12M -55.86%
- Maintainers
- 4
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- Created
@babel/plugin-transform-unicode-regex
Compile ES2015 Unicode regex to ES5
See our website @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-regex for more information.
Install
Using npm:
npm install --save-dev @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-regex
or using yarn:
yarn add @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-regex --dev
Other packages similar to @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-regex
regexpu-core
regexpu-core is a package that also compiles Unicode regular expressions to ES5. It is similar to @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-regex but can be used independently of Babel. It provides a low-level API for transforming regular expressions and is used by Babel itself.
babel-plugin-transform-es2015-unicode-regex
This is a legacy Babel plugin that was used to transform Unicode regular expressions in ES2015 (ES6) code to be ES5-compatible. It has similar functionality to @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-regex but is specific to the ES2015 preset. It is now deprecated in favor of the unified @babel/preset-env.
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Compile ES2015 Unicode regex to ES5
The npm package @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-regex receives a total of 8,091,499 weekly downloads. As such, @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-regex popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @babel/plugin-transform-unicode-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.
Package last updated on 10 Jan 2025
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