In my project, I'm using Babel 6 with the require hook. I need to load a custom babel plugin that I wrote. But do I really need to publish my plugin using npm first, and then include the plugin name in my main project's .babelrc
?
Is there any way to just directly load the plugin code? In other words, can I just load the following directly?
export default function({types: t }) {
return {
visitor: {
...
}
};
}
Where you list your plugins in your .babelrc, provide the path to your plugin instead of your standard published plugin name.
"plugins": ["transform-react-jsx", "./your/plugin/location"]
When exporting your plugin function, you'll probably need to use module.exports =
instead of export default
, since ES2015 modules haven't been fully implemented in Node yet.
This is my entire babel.config.js
file.
module.exports = function (api) {
api.cache(true);
const presets = ["@babel/preset-env", "@babel/preset-react"];
const plugins = [
["@babel/plugin-proposal-pipeline-operator", { "proposal": "minimal" }],
"c:\\projects\\my-babel-plugin"
];
return {
presets,
plugins
};
}
First item in the plugins array is a plugin with options in form of an array. Second item is my own local plugin.
Inside of my-babel-plugin
folder there needs to be a package.json
with the "main" entry, usually "main": "lib/index.js"
or "main": "src/index.js"
.