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@swc/helpers
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Similar to @swc/helpers, @babel/runtime provides a collection of helper functions and polyfills to support the transformation of modern JavaScript code into backwards-compatible versions. It is part of the Babel toolchain. While both packages serve similar purposes, @babel/runtime is typically used with Babel, whereas @swc/helpers is used with the SWC compiler.
Core-js is a modular standard library for JavaScript, providing polyfills for many new JavaScript features, including ECMAScript 2015+ features. Unlike @swc/helpers, which focuses on syntactic transformations, core-js focuses more on providing polyfills for new standard library features and built-ins. It can be used alongside transpilers like Babel or SWC to ensure full compatibility with older environments.
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External helpers for the swc project.
The npm package @swc/helpers receives a total of 37,663,401 weekly downloads. As such, @swc/helpers popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @swc/helpers demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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