babel-preset-node5

Babel presets for Node 5.x

Node 5.x brings ~59% native ES6/ES2015 coverage. This preset for Babel 6 attempts to bridge the gap for the much of the remaining 41% using Babel plug-ins.

Motivation

Babel 6.x is awesome, but simply including the ES2015 preset means you're transpiling features that your Node 5.x installation can already do faster and natively, replacing them with inferior / old code.

This preset complements existing V8-native functionality - it doesn't work around it.

The end result is nearly always a faster build and script execution time.

Key features:

• Versioning that tracks Babel releases
• React / JSX support (via babel-preset-react)
• Flow support (removes types) via babel-plugin-transform-flow-strip-types
• Strict mode, to enable Classes and let (via babel-plugin-transform-strict-mode)
• CommonJS import/export module syntax (babel-plugin-transform-es2015-modules-commonjs)
• Destructuring (via babel-plugin-transform-es2015-destructuring)
• Default and rest parameters (via babel-plugin-transform-es2015-parameters)
• Sticky RegEx (via babel-plugin-transform-es2015-sticky-regex)
• Unicode RegEx (via babel-plugin-transform-es2015-unicode-regex)