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metro-react-native-babel-transformer
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The metro-react-native-babel-transformer package is a component of the Metro bundler specifically designed for React Native applications. It integrates Babel into the Metro bundler, allowing developers to transform JavaScript code to be compatible with various JavaScript engines. This package is crucial for compiling modern JavaScript and JSX syntax into a format that can be executed in the React Native environment.
JavaScript Transformation
This feature allows the transformation of modern JavaScript and JSX code into a format suitable for execution in a React Native environment. The code sample demonstrates how to use the transformer to process a simple arrow function.
const transformer = require('metro-react-native-babel-transformer');
const sourceCode = `const x = (n) => n + 1;`;
const filename = 'example.js';
const options = {dev: true, platform: 'ios', minify: false};
const transformed = transformer.transform({filename, options, src: sourceCode});
console.log(transformed.code);
babel-jest is a Jest plugin that facilitates the processing of JavaScript files using Babel. Similar to metro-react-native-babel-transformer, it integrates Babel for transforming code, but it is tailored for testing with Jest rather than bundling with Metro.
babel-loader is a Webpack loader that uses Babel to transform JavaScript dependencies. Like metro-react-native-babel-transformer, it allows the use of modern JavaScript features, but it is specifically designed for integration with Webpack's module bundling system.
FAQs
Babel transformer for React Native applications.
The npm package metro-react-native-babel-transformer receives a total of 1,186,090 weekly downloads. As such, metro-react-native-babel-transformer popularity was classified as popular.
We found that metro-react-native-babel-transformer demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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