metro-react-native-babel-transformer

What is metro-react-native-babel-transformer?

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.

What are metro-react-native-babel-transformer's main functionalities?

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);

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