babel-preset-latest-node

babel preset latest for node 7 (deprecated), node 8 (latest) or node 6 (LTS)

Alternatives

• babel-preset-env

Options

• target: 6, 6.5, 7, 7.6, 8, 8.3 or 'current'
• loose: Enable “loose” transformations for any plugins in this preset that allow them (Disabled by default).
• modules - Enable transformation of ES6 module syntax to another module type (Enabled by default to "commonjs"). Can be false to not transform modules, or "commonjs"
• es2016 - Enable es2016 features (Enabled by default)
• es2017 - Enable es2017 features (Enabled by default)
• esnext - Enable features in stages but already available in recent node version (Enabled by default)

Compatibility Table

Feature	Node 6	Node 6.5	Node 7	Node 7.6	Node 8	Node 8.3
ES2015
transform-es2015-modules-commonjs	no	no	no	no	no	no
transform-es2015-function-name	flag	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
ES2016
transform-exponentiation-operator	no	flag	yes	yes	yes	yes
ES2017
syntax-trailing-function-commas	no	no	no	no	yes	yes
transform-async-to-generator	no	no	flag	yes	yes	yes
ESNEXT
transform-object-rest-spread	no	no	no	no	flag	yes

Install

npm install --save-dev babel-preset-latest-node
yarn add --dev babel-preset-latest-node

Usage

Via .babelrc

.babelrc

{
  "presets": ["latest-node"]
}

{
  "presets": [["latest-node", { "target": "current" }]]
}

Via CLI

babel script.js --presets latest-node

Via Node API

require("babel-core").transform("code", {
  presets: [require('babel-preset-latest-node')]
});

require("babel-core").transform("code", {
  presets: [[require('babel-preset-latest-node'), { target: 'current' }]]
});