babel-plugin-transform-async-to-generator

babel-plugin-transform-async-to-generator

Turn async functions into ES2015 generators

Example

In

async function foo() {
  await bar();
}

Out

var _asyncToGenerator = function (fn) {
  ...
};
var foo = _asyncToGenerator(function* () {
  yield bar();
});

Installation

npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-transform-async-to-generator

Usage

Via .babelrc (Recommended)

.babelrc

{
  "plugins": ["transform-async-to-generator"]
}

Via CLI

babel --plugins transform-async-to-generator script.js

Via Node API

require("babel-core").transform("code", {
  plugins: ["transform-async-to-generator"]
});

References

• Proposal: Async Functions for ECMAScript