babel-plugin-transform-remove-debugger

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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README

babel-plugin-transform-remove-debugger

Remove debugger statements

Installation

$ npm install babel-plugin-transform-remove-debugger

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"]
});