@babel/register
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See our website @babel/register for more information or the issues associated with this package.
Using npm:
npm install --save-dev @babel/register
or using yarn:
yarn add @babel/register --dev
Similar to @babel/register, ts-node provides on-the-fly compilation for TypeScript files. It is specifically designed for TypeScript and includes type checking, whereas @babel/register is more general-purpose for JavaScript with Babel transformations.
The esm package is a lightweight runtime that allows you to use ES modules in Node.js. It offers similar on-the-fly compilation for ES module syntax but does not include the wide range of JavaScript feature transformations that Babel provides.
Pirates is a more generic module that allows you to add hooks for transforming files on the fly. While it doesn't provide the transformations itself, it can be used to implement similar functionality to @babel/register by plugging in your own transform function or using it with Babel.
This package is designed to hook into the require function and transform files on-the-fly. It is similar to @babel/register but is more flexible as it allows you to hook into any file extension and apply custom transformations.
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The npm package @babel/register receives a total of 2,577,043 weekly downloads. As such, @babel/register popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @babel/register 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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