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The babel-helpers npm package provides a collection of helper functions used by Babel to perform various transformations and polyfills. These helpers are used internally by Babel to handle common tasks such as class inheritance, object spread, and async/await transformations.
Class Inheritance
The `inherits` helper is used to set up prototype inheritance between two constructor functions. This is useful when you need to create a subclass that inherits from a parent class.
const inherits = require('babel-helpers').inherits;
function Parent() {}
function Child() {
Parent.call(this);
}
inherits(Child, Parent);
Object Spread
The `objectSpread` helper is used to merge properties from multiple objects into a single object. This is similar to the object spread operator `{...obj}` in JavaScript.
const objectSpread = require('babel-helpers').objectSpread;
const obj1 = { a: 1, b: 2 };
const obj2 = { b: 3, c: 4 };
const result = objectSpread({}, obj1, obj2);
console.log(result); // { a: 1, b: 3, c: 4 }
Async/Await
The `asyncToGenerator` helper is used to transform an async function into a generator function. This is useful for environments that do not natively support async/await syntax.
const asyncToGenerator = require('babel-helpers').asyncToGenerator;
const asyncFunction = asyncToGenerator(function* () {
const result = yield fetch('https://api.example.com/data');
return result.json();
});
asyncFunction().then(data => console.log(data));
Core-js is a modular standard library for JavaScript that includes polyfills for ECMAScript features. It provides similar functionality to babel-helpers by offering polyfills for modern JavaScript features, but it is more comprehensive and includes a wider range of polyfills.
Lodash is a utility library that provides a wide range of functions for common programming tasks, such as manipulating arrays and objects. While it is not specifically focused on Babel transformations, it offers similar helper functions that can be used to achieve similar results.
Tslib is a runtime library for TypeScript that provides helper functions for various TypeScript features, such as class inheritance and async/await. It is similar to babel-helpers in that it provides runtime support for language features, but it is specifically designed for TypeScript.
Collection of helper functions used by Babel transforms.
npm install --save-dev babel-helpers
import * as helpers from 'babel-helpers';
import * as t from 'babel-types';
const typeofHelper = helpers.get('typeof');
t.isExpressionStatement(typeofHelper);
// true
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Collection of helper functions used by Babel transforms.
The npm package babel-helpers receives a total of 1,360,201 weekly downloads. As such, babel-helpers popularity was classified as popular.
We found that babel-helpers demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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