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Core-js is a modular standard library for JavaScript, which includes polyfills for ECMAScript features. It is similar to babel-runtime in that it provides polyfills, but it is more comprehensive and can be used without Babel.
regenerator-runtime
Regenerator-runtime is a standalone runtime for Regenerator-compiled generator and async functions. It is similar to the regenerator part of babel-runtime but does not include other babel helpers or polyfills.
tslib
Tslib is a runtime library for TypeScript that includes helper functions similar to those in babel-runtime. It is used to support features from TypeScript when compiling to JavaScript, similar to how babel-runtime supports Babel.
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The npm package babel-runtime receives a total of 3,617,982 weekly downloads. As such, babel-runtime popularity was classified as popular.
We found that babel-runtime demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 16 Aug 2017
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