babel-polyfill (deprecated as of Babel 7.4) is required. You must also install it in order to get async/await working.
npm i -D babel-core babel-polyfill babel-preset-es2015 babel-preset-stage-0 babel-loader
package.json
“devDependencies”: {
“babel-core”: “^6.0.20”,
“babel-polyfill”: “^6.0.16”,
“babel-preset-es2015”: “^6.0.15”,
“babel-preset-stage-0”: “^6.0.15”
}
.babelrc
{
“presets”: [ “es2015”, “stage-0” ]
}
.js with async/await (sample code)
“use strict”;
export default async function foo() {
var s = await bar();
console.log(s);
}
function bar() {
return “bar”;
}
In the startup file
require(“babel-core/register”);
require(“babel-polyfill”);
If you are using webpack you need to put it as the first value of your entry array in your webpack configuration file (usually webpack.config.js), as per @Cemen comment:
module.exports = {
entry: [‘babel-polyfill’, ‘./test.js’],
output: {
filename: ‘bundle.js’
},
module: {
loaders: [
{ test: /.jsx?$/, loader: ‘babel’, }
]
}
};
If you want to run tests with babel then use:
mocha –compilers js:babel-core/register –require babel-polyfill
Note
If you’re using babel 7, the package has been renamed to @babel/plugin-transform-runtime.
Besides polyfill, I use babel-plugin-transform-runtime. The plugin is described as:
Externalize references to helpers and builtins, automatically polyfilling your code without polluting globals. What does this actually mean though? Basically, you can use built-ins such as Promise, Set, Symbol etc as well use all the Babel features that require a polyfill seamlessly, without global pollution, making it extremely suitable for libraries.
It also includes support for async/await along with other built-ins of ES 6.
$ npm install –save-dev babel-plugin-transform-runtime
In .babelrc, add the runtime plugin
{
“plugins”: [
[“transform-runtime”, {
“regenerator”: true
}]
]
}