babel-core

[jamiebuilds]

It'd be nice if you could conditionally load babel-core instead of babel when it exists.

babel-core is the lightweight version of babel that plugins like babelify use.

This should work just as well:

require('babel-core/register')

Ref: gulpjs/gulp#1127

[phated]

@thejameskyle I'm pretty swamped the next couple of weeks. Could you submit a PR that adds it as the first option to .babel.js extension? An example of supporting multiple loaders is the .jsx extension https://github.com/tkellen/js-interpret/blob/master/index.js#L24 (I'm guessing babel-core should be added to that list also)

[ghost]

@thejameskyle If I have a project that uses babel-runtime (for generator support, etc.) but also installs the require hook, is it still recommended to add babel-core as a runtime dependency to my project?

In the end, my project ships with babel-runtime regardless, so I was wondering if in this use case it was worth adding yet another dependency babel-core, even if it's "lighter".

[jamiebuilds]

The babel package uses babel-core internally, if you don't need the CLI I suggest replacing babel with babel-core. babel-runtime is separate

[ghost]

@thejameskyle My project uses babel-runtime, but it only uses babel in devDependencies, so I could as you say, however:

I am compiling with:

{ optional: ["runtime"] }

So, since babel-runtime it's already there, and everything works fine, I was wondering if adding babel-core would add any value.

[jamiebuilds]

Go to the support chat, this is isn't the right place to be having this discussion.