A Babel preset that can automatically determine the Babel plugins and polyfills you need based on your supported environments.

npm install babel-preset-env --save-dev

{
  "presets": [
    ["env", {
      "targets": {
        "browsers": ["last 2 versions", "safari >= 7"]
      }
    }]
  ]
}

Check out the many options (especially useBuiltIns to polyfill less)!

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Use external data such as compat-table to determine browser support. (We should create PRs there when necessary)

We can periodically run build-data.js which generates plugins.json.

Ref: #7

Currently located at plugin-features.js.

This should be straightforward to do in most cases. There might be cases were plugins should be split up more or certain plugins aren't standalone enough (or impossible to do).

Default behavior without options is the same as babel-preset-latest.

It won't include stage-x plugins. env will support all plugins in what we consider the latest version of Javascript (by matching what we do in babel-preset-latest).

Ref: #14

If you are targeting IE 8 and Chrome 55 it will include all plugins required by IE 8 since you would need to support both still.

For example, if you are building on Node 4, arrow functions won't be converted, but they will if you build on Node 0.12.

Use browserslist to declare supported environments by performing queries like > 1%, last 2 versions.

Ref: #19

npm install --save-dev babel-preset-env

The default behavior without options runs all transforms (behaves the same as babel-preset-latest).

{
  "presets": ["env"]
}

For more information on setting options for a preset, refer to the plugin/preset options documentation.

{ [string]: number }, defaults to {}.

Takes an object of environment versions to support.

Each target environment takes a number (you can also specify a minor versions like node: 6.5)

Example environments: chrome, opera, edge, firefox, safari, ie, ios, android, node, electron.

The data for this is generated by running the build-data script which pulls in data from compat-table.

number | "current" | true

If you want to compile against the current node version, you can specify "node": true or "node": "current", which would be the same as "node": parseFloat(process.versions.node).

Array<string> | string

A query to select browsers (ex: last 2 versions, > 5%) using browserslist.

Note, browsers' results are overridden by explicit items from targets.

boolean, defaults to false.

Enable "loose" transformations for any plugins in this preset that allow them.

"amd" | "umd" | "systemjs" | "commonjs" | false, defaults to "commonjs".

Enable transformation of ES6 module syntax to another module type.

Setting this to false will not transform modules.

boolean, defaults to false.

Outputs the targets/plugins used and the version specified in plugin data version to console.log.

Array<string>, defaults to [].

NOTE: whitelist is deprecated and will be removed in the next major in favor of this.

An array of plugins to always include.

Valid options include any of the babel plugins or built-ins, such as transform-es2015-arrow-functions, map, set, or object.assign.

This option is useful if there is a bug in a native implementation, or a combination of a non-supported feature + a supported one doesn't work.

For example, Node 4 supports native classes but not spread. If super is used with a spread argument, then the transform-es2015-classes transform needs to be included, as it is not possible to transpile a spread with super otherwise.

Array<string>, defaults to [].

An array of plugins to always exclude/remove.

The possible options are the same as the include option.

This option is useful for "blacklisting" a transform like transform-regenerator if you don't use generators and don't want to include regeneratorRuntime (when using useBuiltIns) or for using another plugin like fast-async instead of Babel's async-to-gen.

boolean, defaults to false.

A way to apply babel-preset-env for polyfills (via "babel-polyfill").

NOTE: This does not currently polyfill experimental/stage-x built-ins like the regular "babel-polyfill" does. This will only work with npm >= 3 (which should be used with Babel 6 anyway)

npm install babel-polyfill --save

This option enables a new plugin that replaces the statement import "babel-polyfill" or require("babel-polyfill") with individual requires for babel-polyfill based on environment.

NOTE: Only use require("babel-polyfill"); once in your whole app. One option is to create a single entry file that only contains the require statement.

In

import "babel-polyfill";

Out (different based on environment)

import "core-js/modules/es7.string.pad-start";
import "core-js/modules/es7.string.pad-end";
import "core-js/modules/web.timers";
import "core-js/modules/web.immediate";
import "core-js/modules/web.dom.iterable";

This will also work for core-js directly (import "core-js";)

npm install core-js --save

// src
export class A {}

// target chrome 52
{
  "presets": [
    ["env", {
      "targets": {
        "chrome": 52
      }
    }]
  ]
}

// ...

class A {}
exports.A = A;

// target chrome 52 with webpack 2/rollup and loose mode
{
  "presets": [
    ["env", {
      "targets": {
        "chrome": 52
      },
      "modules": false,
      "loose": true
    }]
  ]
}

// ...

export class A {}

// using browserslist
{
  "presets": [
    ["env", {
      "targets": {
        "chrome": 52,
        "browsers": ["last 2 versions", "safari 7"]
      }
    }]
  ]
}

// ...

export var A = function A() {
  _classCallCheck(this, A);
};

// process.versions.node -> 6.9.0
{
  "presets": [
    ["env", {
      "targets": {
        "node": "current"
      }
    }]
  ]
}

// ...

class A {}
exports.A = A;

Using targets: {
  "node": 6.5
}

Using plugins:

module: false
transform-exponentiation-operator {}
transform-async-to-generator {}
syntax-trailing-function-commas {}

always include arrow functions, explicitly exclude generators

{
  "presets": [
    ["env", {
      "targets": {
        "browsers": ["last 2 versions", "safari >= 7"]
      },
      "include": ["transform-es2015-arrow-functions", "es6.map"],
      "exclude": ["transform-regenerator", "es6.set"]
    }]
  ]
}

If you get a SyntaxError: Unexpected token ... error when using the object-rest-spread transform then make sure the plugin has been updated to, at least, v6.19.0.

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