babel-preset-meridian

Shared babel configuration for Meridian projects.

Install

If you run babel over your webpack config:

$ npm i -D babel-preset-meridian@git+ssh://[e-mail]/joefraley/babel-preset-meridian.git

If you DON'T run babel over your webpack config:

$ npm i -D babel-preset-meridian@git+ssh://[e-mail]/joefraley/babel-preset-meridian.git#legacy

Use

NOTE: This config won't work without Webpack 2

// package.json
{
  "devDependencies": {
    "babel-preset-meridian": "git+https://github.com/joefraley/babel-preset-meridian.git",
    "webpack": "2.2.0"
  }
}

// .babelrc
{
  "presets": ["meridian"]
}

That's it!

The only relevant file is index.js. It contains comments explaining each of the needed presets and plugins. It exports a babel configuration containing all the following:

Presets

[babel-preset-latest, { es2015: {modules: false} }]

See https://twitter.com/joseph_fraley/status/832688588445749249

{ es2015: {modules: false} } allows Webpack 2 to conduct treeshaking, but it means that babel will not understand ESModules without Webpack's help.

// index.js
import { debounce } from 'lodash'
// webpack will only include debounce and throw the rest of lodash away during compilation.
 
// webpack.config.js
import Webpack from 'webpack' // <--- doesn't work, because webpack itself handles imports now
const Webpack = require('webpack') // <--- you just gotta do this in files not compiled by webpack that you expect babel to read, for example when using babel-node node_modules/.bin/webpack

babel-preset-react

See https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-preset-react

Makes JSX possible and includes some other junk that Facebook likes (like flow-strip-types).

import React from 'react'
const Button = () => <button />

Plugins

babel-plugin-transform-async-to-generator & babel-plugin-transform-runtime

See https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/syntax-async-functions/#top

Both needed for async/await functions

babel-plugin-transform-decorators-legacy

See https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/transform-decorators/

Eventually Babel will incorporate this into babel-preset-latest and it won't be needed. Just waiting on the final decorators spec.

import autobind from 'autobind'
import React from 'react'
@autobind // <--------
class Button extends React.Component {...}

babel-plugin-transform-class-properties

See https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/transform-class-properties/

class Button extends React.Component {
  static propTypes = {...} // <---
}

babel-plugin-transform-object-rest-spread

See https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/transform-object-rest-spread/

const props = {a:1, b:2, c:3}
<Button {...props} /> // Button.props === {a:1, b:2, c:3}

babel-plugin-syntax-dynamic-import

See https://webpack.js.org/guides/code-splitting-import/#dynamic-import

Makes webpacks lazy-load syntax possible. Used for code-splitting through react-router or something like that.

import('react').then(({ Component }) => {
  class Button extends Component {...}
})

babel-plugin-transform-do-expressions

See https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/transform-do-expressions/

Makes this possible:

const Component = props =>
  <div className='myComponent'>
    {do {
      if(color === 'blue') { <BlueComponent/>; }
      else if(color === 'red') { <RedComponent/>; }
      else if(color === 'green') { <GreenComponent/>; }
    }}
  </div>