babel-install

babel-install

Declare & install Babel plugins & transforms the easy way

Getting started

From the command line

npm i babel-install -DE

If you haven't already, add this to your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc and reload your shell. It allows your to run local Node bins as if they were globally installed.

export PATH=./node_modules/.bin:$PATH

Usage

babel-install babel-preset-es2015 babel-plugin-transform-async-to-generator babel-plugin-transform-es2015-arrow-functions

...which results in

.babelrc

{
  "presets": ["es2015"],
  "plugins": ["transform-es2015-arrow-functions", "transform-async-to-generator"]
}

package.json

{
  "devDependencies": {
    "babel-preset-es2015": "{some latest version here}",
    "babel-plugin-transform-async-to-generator": "{some latest version here}",
    "babel-plugin-transform-es2015-arrow-functions": "{some latest version here}",
  }
}

Development

Install pre-commit hook

npm run install-precommit