I'm making an app on react-redux. I'm using webpack for bundling and babel for transpiling. When I am try to use arrow function in my code. It gives me error as :
Module build failed: SyntaxError: Unexpected token (34:15)
};
> handleSubmit = (event) => {
^
event.preventDefault();
this.props.dispatch(actions.addTodo(this.state.inputText));
My webpack configuration file looks like as follows :
module.exports = {
devtool: 'inline-source-map',
entry: [
'webpack-hot-middleware/client',
'./client/client.js'
],
output: {
path: require('path').resolve('./dist'),
filename: 'bundle.js',
publicPath: '/'
},
plugins: [
new webpack.optimize.OccurenceOrderPlugin(),
new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
new webpack.NoErrorsPlugin()
],
module: {
loaders: [
{
test: /\.js$/,
loader: 'babel-loader',
exclude: /node_modules/,
query: {
presets: ['react', 'es2015', 'react-hmre']
}
}
]
}
};
and I'm using following babel packages in my package.json :
"babel-cli": "^6.6.5",
"babel-core": "^6.4.5",
"babel-loader": "^6.2.2",
"babel-preset-es2015": "^6.3.13",
"babel-preset-react": "^6.3.13",
"babel-preset-react-hmre": "^1.1.1",
What would have gone wrong?
Stab in the dark, is this function inside a class? Arrow functions that are members of a class are not included in ES2015 (or 2016). If you want to do something like:
class Foo {
bar = (baz) => {
console.log(baz);
}
}
You'll need to include babel-transform-class-properties.
In your example, you'll need to:
npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-transform-class-properties
and change your loader to
{
test: /\.js$/,
loader: 'babel-loader',
exclude: /node_modules/,
query: {
presets: ['react', 'es2015', 'react-hmre'],
plugins: ['transform-class-properties']
}
}
This is exactly what worked for me:
1) Install babel-plugin-transform-class-properties:
sudo npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-transform-class-properties
2) Add options (not query) to your rules:
module.exports = {
..........
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.(js|jsx)$/,
exclude: /(node_modules|bower_components)/,
loader: 'babel-loader',
options: {
presets: ['env', 'react', 'es2015'],
plugins: ['transform-class-properties']
}
},
{
test: /\.css$/,
use: ['style-loader', 'css-loader']
}
]
},
..........
};
First you needed to edit the .babelrc file to
{
"presets": ["react", ["es2016"]],
"plugins": [
"babel-plugin-transform-class-properties"
]
}
Second npm install babel-plugin-transform-class-properties and babel-preset-es2016
Also if you want to get used to new babel show, you can use babel.config.js
file instead of .babelrc
. The idea is like something like webpack.config.js
file , but for babel configurations. It is been used like below:
module.exports = {
presets: [ "@babel/preset-env", "@babel/preset-react" ],
plugins: [ "@babel/plugin-transform-arrow-functions", "@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties" ]
}
Make sure to install all of those plugins to compile successfully. I should say that babel itself just recommended to do all of these stuff in .babelrc
file to every one. But you know, we are not every one.