babel-plugin-transform-export-function

A Babel transform that wraps the module code inside a function, that it exports.

const {capitalize} = require('./helpers');
const {name} = require('./data.json');
 
// Return written explicitely, but you could use
// babel-plugin-transform-last-statement to
// return it automatically
return `<h1>${capitalize(name)}</h1>`
 
function doSomething() {
  // Do something, but I'm unused
}

Will become

const {capitalize} = require('./helpers');
const {name} = require('./data.json');
 
module.exports = function(data) {
  return `<h1>${capitalize(name)}</h1>`
}
 
function doSomething() {
  // Do something, but I'm unused
}

TODO

• Basic implementation
• Only activate if there's no top module.exports call

Future

• Hoist imports via require, ignore dynamic require
• Ignore functions & classes in top-level
• Configure function arguments (default data)
• Configure function name (default: anonymous)
• Named vs default export (default: default export)
• ES6 exports through option
• Automatic detection of ES6 vs CJS (existing require => CJS, existing import or import() => ES6)