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babel-plugin-eliminator
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This is a babel plugin for removing specific named exports in your JavaScript code, this is how Next.js implements getServerSideProps and getStaticProps, it essentially removes thoses exports and referenced variables.
npm i babel-plugin-eliminator
Options:
{
"plugins": [
["eliminator", {"namedExports": ["foo"]}]
]
}
Input:
import pkg from 'some-pkg'
const someVariable = 'some-string'
export const foo = () => {
return pkg(someVariable)
}
Output:
export var foo = 1
type PluginState = {
refs: Set<NodePath<BabelTypes.Identifier>>
opts: PluginOpts
/** Removed named exports */
removedNamedExports: Set<string>
}
type PluginOpts = {
/** Removing specific named exports */
namedExports?: string[]
/** Called at the end of transpiling */
done?: (state: PluginState) => void
}
This plugin is essentially a fork of next.js/next-ssg-transform.
MIT © EGOIST
FAQs
Remove specific named exports
We found that babel-plugin-eliminator demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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