babel-plugin-transform-remove-console

What is babel-plugin-transform-remove-console?

The babel-plugin-transform-remove-console package is a Babel plugin that removes all console.* calls from your JavaScript code. This is particularly useful for production builds where you want to clean up debugging statements.

What are babel-plugin-transform-remove-console's main functionalities?

Remove all console statements

This feature removes all console statements such as console.log, console.error, etc., from the code. After applying the plugin, the resulting code will not contain any console statements.

const example = () => {
  console.log('This will be removed');
  console.error('This will also be removed');
  return 'Hello, World!';
};

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babel-plugin-transform-remove-debugger

This package removes all debugger statements from your code. It is similar to babel-plugin-transform-remove-console but focuses on removing debugger statements instead of console statements.

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README

babel-plugin-transform-remove-console

This plugin removes all console.* calls.

Example

In

console.log("foo");
console.error("bar");

Out

Installation

npm install babel-plugin-transform-remove-console --save-dev

Usage

Via .babelrc (Recommended)

.babelrc

// without options
{
  "plugins": ["transform-remove-console"]
}

// with options
{
  "plugins": [ ["transform-remove-console", { "exclude": [ "error", "warn"] }] ]
}

Via CLI

babel --plugins transform-remove-console script.js

Via Node API

require("@babel/core").transform("code", {
  plugins: ["transform-remove-console"]
});

Options

• exclude - An array of console methods to exclude from removal.