What is babel-plugin-transform-remove-debugger?
The babel-plugin-transform-remove-debugger npm package is a Babel plugin that removes all debugger statements from your JavaScript code. This is particularly useful for production builds where you want to ensure that no debugging code is left in the final output.
What are babel-plugin-transform-remove-debugger's main functionalities?
Remove debugger statements
This feature removes all debugger statements from the input JavaScript code. In the provided code sample, the debugger statement inside the test function is removed, leaving only the console.log statement.
const code = `function test() { debugger; console.log('test'); }`;
const output = Babel.transform(code, { plugins: ['transform-remove-debugger'] }).code;
console.log(output); // function test() { console.log('test'); }
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babel-plugin-transform-remove-console
The babel-plugin-transform-remove-console package removes all console.* statements from your JavaScript code. This is similar to babel-plugin-transform-remove-debugger but focuses on removing console statements instead of debugger statements.
babel-plugin-minify-dead-code-elimination
The babel-plugin-minify-dead-code-elimination package removes dead code from your JavaScript files. While it does not specifically target debugger statements, it can remove unreachable code, which may include debugger statements if they are part of dead code.
babel-plugin-transform-remove-undefined
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babel-plugin-transform-remove-debugger
This plugin removes all debugger;
statements.
Example
In
debugger;
Out
Installation
npm install babel-plugin-transform-remove-debugger --save-dev
Usage
Via .babelrc
(Recommended)
.babelrc
{
"plugins": ["transform-remove-debugger"]
}
Via CLI
babel --plugins transform-remove-debugger script.js
Via Node API
require("@babel/core").transform("code", {
plugins: ["transform-remove-debugger"]
});