I'm trying to use async/await from scratch on Babel 6, but I'm getting regeneratorRuntime is not defined.
.babelrc file
{
"presets": [ "es2015", "stage-0" ]
}
package.json file
"devDependencies": {
"babel-core": "^6.0.20",
"babel-preset-es2015": "^6.0.15",
"babel-preset-stage-0": "^6.0.15"
}
.js file
"use strict";
async function foo() {
await bar();
}
function bar() { }
exports.default = foo;
Using it normally without the async/await works just fine. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
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
}]
]
}
Babel 7 Users
I had some trouble getting around this since most information was for prior babel versions. For Babel 7, install these two dependencies:
npm install --save #babel/runtime
npm install --save-dev #babel/plugin-transform-runtime
And, in .babelrc, add:
{
"presets": ["#babel/preset-env"],
"plugins": [
["#babel/transform-runtime"]
]
}
Update
It works if you set the target to Chrome. But it might not work for other targets, please refer to: https://github.com/babel/babel-preset-env/issues/112
So this answer is NOT quite proper for the original question. I will keep it here as a reference to babel-preset-env.
A simple solution is to add import 'babel-polyfill' at the beginning of your code.
If you use webpack, a quick solution is to add babel-polyfill as shown below:
entry: {
index: ['babel-polyfill', './index.js']
}
I believe I've found the latest best practice.
Check this project: https://github.com/babel/babel-preset-env
yarn add --dev babel-preset-env
Use the following as your babel configuration:
{
"presets": [
["env", {
"targets": {
"browsers": ["last 2 Chrome versions"]
}
}]
]
}
Then your app should be good to go in the last 2 versions of Chrome browser.
You can also set Node as the targets or fine-tune the browsers list according to https://github.com/ai/browserslist
Tell me what, don't tell me how.
I really like babel-preset-env's philosophy: tell me which environment you want to support, do NOT tell me how to support them. It's the beauty of declarative programming.
I've tested async await and they DO work. I don't know how they work and I really don't want to know. I want to spend my time on my own code and my business logic instead. Thanks to babel-preset-env, it liberates me from the Babel configuration hell.
Update: The Babel 7 post also has a more in-depth answer.
Babel 7.4.0 or later (core-js 2 / 3)
As of Babel 7.4.0, #babel/polyfill is deprecated.
In general, there are two ways to install polyfills/regenerator: via global namespace (Option 1) or as ponyfill (Option 2, without global pollution).
Option 1: #babel/preset-env
presets: [
["#babel/preset-env", {
"useBuiltIns": "usage",
"corejs": 3, // or 2,
"targets": {
"firefox": "64", // or whatever target to choose .
},
}]
]
will automatically use regenerator-runtime and core-js according to your target. No need to import anything manually. Don't forget to install runtime dependencies:
npm i --save regenerator-runtime core-js
Alternatively, set useBuiltIns: "entry" and import it manually:
import "regenerator-runtime/runtime";
import "core-js/stable"; // if polyfills are also needed
Option 2: #babel/transform-runtime with #babel/runtime
This alternative has no global scope pollution and is suitable for libraries.
{
"plugins": [
[
"#babel/plugin-transform-runtime",
{
"regenerator": true,
"corejs": 3 // or 2; if polyfills needed
...
}
]
]
}
Install it:
npm i -D #babel/plugin-transform-runtime
npm i #babel/runtime
If corejs polyfill is used, you replace #babel/runtime with #babel/runtime-corejs2 (for "corejs": 2) or #babel/runtime-corejs3 (for "corejs": 3).
Alternatively, if you don't need all the modules babel-polyfill provides, you can just specify babel-regenerator-runtime in your webpack config:
module.exports = {
entry: ['babel-regenerator-runtime', './test.js'],
// ...
};
When using webpack-dev-server with HMR, doing this reduced the number of files it has to compile on every build by quite a lot. This module is installed as part of babel-polyfill so if you already have that you're fine, otherwise you can install it separately with npm i -D babel-regenerator-runtime.
My simple solution:
npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-transform-runtime
npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-transform-async-to-generator
.babelrc
{
"presets": [
["latest", {
"es2015": {
"loose": true
}
}],
"react",
"stage-0"
],
"plugins": [
"transform-runtime",
"transform-async-to-generator"
]
}
This error is caused when async/await functions are used without the proper Babel plugins. As of March 2020, the following should be all you need to do. (#babel/polyfill and a lot of the accepted solutions have been deprecated in Babel. Read more in the Babel docs.)
In the command line, type:
npm install --save-dev #babel/plugin-transform-runtime
In your babel.config.js file, add this plugin #babel/plugin-transform-runtime. Note: The below example includes the other presets and plugins I have for a small React/Node/Express project I worked on recently:
module.exports = {
presets: ['#babel/preset-react', '#babel/preset-env'],
plugins: ['#babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties',
'#babel/plugin-transform-runtime'],
};
babel-regenerator-runtime is now deprecated, instead one should use regenerator-runtime.
To use the runtime generator with webpack and babel v7:
install regenerator-runtime:
npm i -D regenerator-runtime
And then add within webpack configuration :
entry: [
'regenerator-runtime/runtime',
YOUR_APP_ENTRY
]
Update your .babelrc file according to the following examples, it will work.
If you are using #babel/preset-env package
{
"presets": [
[
"#babel/preset-env", {
"targets": {
"node": "current"
}
}
]
]
}
or if you are using babel-preset-env package
{
"presets": [
[
"env", {
"targets": {
"node": "current"
}
}
]
]
}
As of Oct 2019 this worked for me:
Add this to the preset.
"presets": [
"#babel/preset-env"
]
Then install regenerator-runtime using npm.
npm i regenerator-runtime
And then in your main file use: (this import is used only once)
import "regenerator-runtime/runtime";
This is will enable you to use async awaits in your file and remove the regenerator error
Be careful of hoisted functions
I had both my 'polyfill import' and my 'async function' in the same file, however I was using the function syntax that hoists it above the polyfill which would give me the ReferenceError: regeneratorRuntime is not defined error.
Change this code
import "babel-polyfill"
async function myFunc(){ }
to this
import "babel-polyfill"
var myFunc = async function(){}
to prevent it being hoisted above the polyfill import.
If using babel-preset-stage-2 then just have to start the script with --require babel-polyfill.
In my case this error was thrown by Mocha tests.
Following fixed the issue
mocha \"server/tests/**/*.test.js\" --compilers js:babel-register --require babel-polyfill
I had this problem in Chrome. Similar to RienNeVaPlu͢s’s answer, this solved it for me:
npm install --save-dev regenerator-runtime
Then in my code:
import 'regenerator-runtime/runtime';
Happy to avoid the extra 200 kB from babel-polyfill.
I used tip from https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/9849#issuecomment-592668815 and added targets: { esmodules: true,} to my babel.config.js.
module.exports = {
presets: [
[
'#babel/preset-env',
{
targets: {
esmodules: true,
},
},
],
],
}
You're getting an error because async/await use generators, which are an ES2016 feature, not ES2015. One way to fix this is to install the babel preset for ES2016 (npm install --save babel-preset-es2016) and compile to ES2016 instead of ES2015:
"presets": [
"es2016",
// etc...
]
As the other answers mention, you can also use polyfills (though make sure you load the polyfill first before any other code runs). Alternatively, if you don't want to include all of the polyfill dependencies, you can use the babel-regenerator-runtime or the babel-plugin-transform-runtime.
I started getting this error after converting my project into a typescript project. From what I understand, the problem stems from async/await not being recognized.
For me the error was fixed by adding two things to my setup:
As mentioned above many times, I needed to add babel-polyfill into my webpack entry array:
...
entry: ['babel-polyfill', './index.js'],
...
I needed to update my .babelrc to allow the complilation of async/await into generators:
{
"presets": ["es2015"],
"plugins": ["transform-async-to-generator"]
}
DevDependencies:
I had to install a few things into my devDependencies in my package.json file as well. Namely, I was missing the babel-plugin-transform-async-to-generator, babel-polyfill and the babel-preset-es2015:
"devDependencies": {
"babel-loader": "^6.2.2",
"babel-plugin-transform-async-to-generator": "^6.5.0",
"babel-polyfill": "^6.5.0",
"babel-preset-es2015": "^6.5.0",
"webpack": "^1.12.13"
}
Full Code Gist:
I got the code from a really helpful and concise GitHub gist you can find here.
I fixed this error by installing babel-polyfill
npm install babel-polyfill --save
then I imported it in my app entry point
import http from 'http';
import config from 'dotenv';
import 'babel-polyfill';
import { register } from 'babel-core';
import app from '../app';
for testing I included --require babel-polyfill in my test script
"test": "export NODE_ENV=test|| SET NODE_ENV=test&& mocha --compilers
js:babel-core/register --require babel-polyfill server/test/**.js --exit"
There are so many answers up there, I will post my answer for my reference.
I use webpack and react, here is my solution without the .babelrc file
I am working on this in Aug 2020
Install react and babel
npm i #babel/core babel-loader #babel/preset-env #babel/preset-react react react-dom #babel/plugin-transform-runtime --save-dev
Then in my webpack.config.js
// other stuff
module.exports = {
// other stuff
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.m?js$/,
exclude: /(node_modules|bower_components)/,
use: {
loader: 'babel-loader',
options: {
presets: ['#babel/preset-env',"#babel/preset-react"],
plugins: ['#babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties', '#babel/plugin-transform-runtime'],
//npm install --save-dev #babel/plugin-transform-runtime
}
}
},
],
},
};
I just don't know why I dont need to install the async package for the moment
New Answer Why you follow my answer ?
Ans: Because I am going to give you a answer with latest Update version npm project .
04/14/2017
"name": "es6",
"version": "1.0.0",
"babel-core": "^6.24.1",
"babel-loader": "^6.4.1",
"babel-polyfill": "^6.23.0",
"babel-preset-es2015": "^6.24.1",
"webpack": "^2.3.3",
"webpack-dev-server": "^2.4.2"
If your Use this version or more UP version of Npm and all other ...
SO just need to change :
webpack.config.js
module.exports = {
entry: ["babel-polyfill", "./app/js"]
};
After change webpack.config.js files Just add this line to top of your code .
import "babel-polyfill";
Now check everything is ok. Reference LINK
Also Thanks #BrunoLM for his nice Answer.
The targeted browsers I need to support already support async/await, but when writing mocha tests, without the proper setting I still got this error.
Most of the articles I googled are outdated, including the accepted answer and high voted answers here, i.e. you don't need polyfill, babel-regenerator-runtime, babel-plugin-transform-runtime. etc. if your target browser(s) already supports async/await (of course if not you need polyfill)
I don't want to use webpack either.
Tyler Long's answer is actually on the right track since he suggested babel-preset-env (but I omitted it first as he mentioned polifill at the beginning). I still got the ReferenceError: regeneratorRuntime is not defined at the first then I realized it was because I didn't set the target. After setting the target for node I fix the regeneratorRuntime error:
"scripts": {
//"test": "mocha --compilers js:babel-core/register"
//https://github.com/mochajs/mocha/wiki/compilers-deprecation
"test": "mocha --require babel-core/register"
},
"devDependencies": {
"babel-core": "^6.26.3",
"babel-preset-env": "^1.7.0",
"mocha": "^5.2.0"
},
//better to set it .bablerc, I list it here for brevity and it works too.
"babel": {
"presets": [
["env",{
"targets": {
"node": "current"
"chrome": 66,
"firefox": 60,
},
"debug":true
}]
]
}
My working babel 7 boilerplate for react with regenerator runtime:
.babelrc
{
"presets": [
[
"#babel/preset-env",
{
"targets": {
"node": true,
},
},
],
"#babel/preset-react",
],
"plugins": [
"#babel/plugin-syntax-class-properties",
"#babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties"
]
}
package.json
...
"devDependencies": {
"#babel/core": "^7.0.0-0",
"#babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties": "^7.4.4",
"#babel/plugin-syntax-class-properties": "^7.2.0",
"#babel/polyfill": "^7.4.4",
"#babel/preset-env": "^7.4.5",
"#babel/preset-react": "^7.0.0",
"babel-eslint": "^10.0.1",
...
main.js
import "#babel/polyfill";
....
Easiest way to fix this 'regeneratorRuntime not defined issue' in your console:
You don't have to install any unnecessary plugins. Just add:
<script src="https://unpkg.com/regenerator-runtime#0.13.1/runtime.js"></script>
inside of the body in your index.html.
Now regeneratorRuntime should be defined once you run babel and now your async/await functions should be compiled successfully into ES2015
Just install regenerator-runtime
with below command
npm i regenerator-runtime
add below line in startup file before you require server file
require("regenerator-runtime/runtime");
So far this has been working for me
I get this error using gulp with rollup when I tried to use ES6 generators:
gulp.task('scripts', () => {
return rollup({
entry: './app/scripts/main.js',
format: "iife",
sourceMap: true,
plugins: [babel({
exclude: 'node_modules/**',
"presets": [
[
"es2015-rollup"
]
],
"plugins": [
"external-helpers"
]
}),
includePaths({
include: {},
paths: ['./app/scripts'],
external: [],
extensions: ['.js']
})]
})
.pipe(source('app.js'))
.pipe(buffer())
.pipe(sourcemaps.init({
loadMaps: true
}))
.pipe(sourcemaps.write('.'))
.pipe(gulp.dest('.tmp/scripts'))
.pipe(reload({ stream: true }));
});
I may case the solution was to include babel-polyfill as bower component:
bower install babel-polyfill --save
and add it as dependency in index.html:
<script src="/bower_components/babel-polyfill/browser-polyfill.js"></script>
1 - Install babel-plugin-transform-async-to-module-method,
babel-polyfil, bluebird , babel-preset-es2015, babel-core :
npm install babel-plugin-transform-async-to-module-method babel-polyfill bluebird babel-preset-es2015 babel-core
2 - Add in your js babel polyfill:
import 'babel-polyfill';
3 - Add plugin in your .babelrc:
{
"presets": ["es2015"],
"plugins": [
["transform-async-to-module-method", {
"module": "bluebird",
"method": "coroutine"
}]
]
}
Source : http://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/transform-async-to-module-method/
For people looking to use the babel-polyfill version 7^ do this with webpack ver3^.
Npm install the module npm i -D #babel/polyfill
Then in your webpack file in your entry point do this
entry: ['#babel/polyfill', path.resolve(APP_DIR, 'App.js')],
To babel7 users and ParcelJS >= 1.10.0 users
npm i #babel/runtime-corejs2
npm i --save-dev #babel/plugin-transform-runtime #babel/core
.babelrc
{
"plugins": [
["#babel/plugin-transform-runtime", {
"corejs": 2
}]
]
}
taken from https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/1762
I had a setup
with webpack using presets: ['es2015', 'stage-0']
and mocha that was running tests compiled by webpack.
To make my async/await in tests work all I had to do is use mocha with the --require babel-polyfill option:
mocha --require babel-polyfill
I am using a React and Django project and got it to work by using regenerator-runtime. You should do this because #babel/polyfill will increase your app's size more and is also deprecated. I also followed this tutorial's episode 1 & 2 to create my project's structure.
*package.json*
...
"devDependencies": {
"regenerator-runtime": "^0.13.3",
...
}
.babelrc
{
"presets": ["#babel/preset-env", "#babel/preset-react"],
"plugins": ["transform-class-properties"]
}
index.js
...
import regeneratorRuntime from "regenerator-runtime";
import "regenerator-runtime/runtime";
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('app'));
...
I am trying to integrate vuejs 3 to an existing project which uses webpack. I read about vue-loader, so I am trying to use it.
In the official documentation I have this:
Every time a new version of vue is released, a corresponding version of vue-template-compiler is released together. The compiler's version must be in sync with the base vue package so that vue-loader produces code that is compatible with the runtime. This means every time you upgrade vue in your project, you should upgrade vue-template-compiler to match it as well.
So, when I try to compile I get this error:
Vue packages version mismatch:
- vue#3.0.2 (/home/alejo/playground/parquesFrontend/node_modules/vue/index.js)
- vue-template-compiler#2.6.12 (/home/alejo/playground/parquesFrontend/node_modules/vue-template-compiler/package.json)
This may cause things to work incorrectly. Make sure to use the same version for both.
If you are using vue-loader#>=10.0, simply update vue-template-compiler.
If you are using vue-loader#<10.0 or vueify, re-installing vue-loader/vueify should bump vue-template-compiler to the latest.
But when I try to install vue-template-compiler#3.0.2 I get this error:
❯ npm install vue-template-compiler#3.0.2
npm ERR! code ETARGET
npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for vue-template-compiler#3.0.2.
npm ERR! notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
npm ERR! notarget a package version that doesn't exist.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/alejo/.npm/_logs/2020-11-17T02_52_46_458Z-debug.log
How can I solve this problem?
To make vue 3 work fine with webpack without using vite or vue cli follow these steps :
init the package.json like :
{
"private": true,
"name": "vue-3",
"description": null,
}
install the last version of vue :
npm i --save vue#next vue-loader#next
install also the dev dependencies that includes #vue/compiler-sfc which replaces vue-template-compiler
npm i -D #vue/compiler-sfc css-loader file-loader mini-css-extract-plugin
url-loader webpack webpack-cli webpack-dev-server
#vue/compiler-sfc
css-loader
file-loader
mini-css-extract-plugin
url-loader
vue-loader
webpack
webpack-cli
webpack-dev-server
create or edit your webpack.config.js with following content :
const path = require("path");
const { VueLoaderPlugin } = require("vue-loader");
const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require("mini-css-extract-plugin");
module.exports = (env = {}) => ({
mode: env.prod ? "production" : "development",
devtool: env.prod ? "source-map" : "cheap-module-eval-source-map",
entry: [
require.resolve(`webpack-dev-server/client`),
path.resolve(__dirname, "./src/main.js")
].filter(Boolean),
output: {
path: path.resolve(__dirname, "./dist"),
publicPath: "/dist/"
},
resolve: {
alias: {
// this isn't technically needed, since the default `vue` entry for bundlers
// is a simple `export * from '#vue/runtime-dom`. However having this
// extra re-export somehow causes webpack to always invalidate the module
// on the first HMR update and causes the page to reload.
vue: "#vue/runtime-dom"
}
},
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.vue$/,
use: "vue-loader"
},
{
test: /\.png$/,
use: {
loader: "url-loader",
options: { limit: 8192 }
}
},
{
test: /\.css$/,
use: [
{
loader: MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader,
options: { hmr: !env.prod }
},
"css-loader"
]
}
]
},
plugins: [
new VueLoaderPlugin(),
new MiniCssExtractPlugin({
filename: "[name].css"
})
],
devServer: {
inline: true,
hot: true,
stats: "minimal",
contentBase: __dirname,
overlay: true,
injectClient: false,
disableHostCheck: true
}
});
Add dev script to run your app :
{
"private": true,
"scripts": {
"dev": "webpack-dev-server"
},
"dependencies": {
"vue": "^3.0.2"
},
"name": "vue-3",
"description": null,
"devDependencies": {
...
}
}
Fill the index.html with following content :
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/dist/main.css" />
<div id="app"></div>
<script src="/dist/main.js"></script>
Finally run npm run dev the visit http://localhost:8080/
for a ready to use project try to clone this REPOSITORY which built by following the steps above.
I believe you need to use vue-loader#next with Vue 3
In Vue 3 the SFC compiler package is no longer vue-template-compiler but compiler-sfc (check here)
I completely agree with the suggestion to use Vue CLI to manage the project - it will save you lot of trouble managing all the dependencies (especially now when Vue 3 ecosystem is trying to catch-up with Vue 3 release and lots of tool even don't have any migration documentation ....like vue-loader)
If you are not able to use CLI because your existing project already have Webpack config, you can still use CLI as a guide. Just generate new project on the side, use vue inspect command to inspect Webpack config it is using and package.json for required dependencies...
I've just installed the Webpacker gem in rails that comes with nice tasks that install Vue.
Nevertheless, it installs Vue 2.x with its loader and template compiler...
To bump everything to Vue 3 aand its dependencies simply run:
yarn add vue#next vue-loader#next #vue/compiler-sfc
Voila! You're using Vue 3 now
I upgraded a Vue2 app to Vue3 manually and I was getting this error when I was running the unit tests after upgrading all of the dependencies.
To get everything working, I also had to fix Jest's config file.
In jest.config.js set the "transform" property to:
{
transform: '^.+\\.vue$': `vue-jest`
}
The dependencies I used to get started were from a new Vue3.0 app I created using the cli. Below are the dependencies that my cli settings got me:
"dependencies": {
"core-js": "^3.6.5",
"vue": "^3.0.0",
"vue-router": "^4.0.0-0",
"vuex": "^4.0.0-0"
},
"devDependencies": {
"#vue/cli-plugin-babel": "~4.5.0",
"#vue/cli-plugin-eslint": "~4.5.0",
"#vue/cli-plugin-router": "~4.5.0",
"#vue/cli-plugin-unit-jest": "~4.5.0",
"#vue/cli-plugin-vuex": "~4.5.0",
"#vue/cli-service": "~4.5.0",
"#vue/compiler-sfc": "^3.0.0",
"#vue/test-utils": "^2.0.0-0",
"babel-eslint": "^10.1.0",
"eslint": "^6.7.2",
"eslint-plugin-vue": "^7.0.0-0",
"node-sass": "^4.12.0",
"sass-loader": "^8.0.2",
"typescript": "~3.9.3",
"vue-jest": "^5.0.0-0"
}
Note that for my cli settings, the .eslintrc.js also has some minor changes in it for Vue3. In a fresh install the cli makes the "extends" property as below:
extends: [
`plugin:vue/vue3-essential`,
`eslint:recommended`
],
I have a monorepo structure of my project like this:
babel.config.js
a-something
b-something
where I have the babel config file in the root of my project and the packages a-something and b-something.
Inside package a-something I have the following webpack config:
const path = require('path')
module.exports = {
target: 'node',
entry: './src/index.js',
output: {
filename: 'bundle.js',
path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'build')
},
devtool: 'source-map',
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.js?$/,
use: {
loader: 'babel-loader',
options: {
rootMode: 'upward'
}
},
include: [
path.resolve(__dirname, 'src'),
/node_modules\/a-/,
/node_modules\/b-/
]
}
]
}
}
Inside the package a-something I have the following package.json:
{
"name": "a-something",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"prod:build": "webpack --config webpack.config.js",
"prod:start": "node build/bundle.js"
},
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"dependencies": {
"express": "^4.16.2",
"graphql": "^14.5.8",
"graphql-request": "^1.8.2",
"graphql-tag": "^2.10.1",
"b-something": "^1.0.0",
"node-fetch": "^2.6.0",
"sitemap": "^5.0.0"
},
"devDependencies": {
"webpack": "3.5.6",
"#babel/polyfill": "7.7.0"
}
}
My root package.json has the following dependencies:
"#babel/cli": "^7.5.5",
"#babel/core": "^7.5.5",
"babel-loader": "8.0.6"
and lastly my Dockerfile inside package a-something is:
FROM node:10.15.1
COPY ./package.json /src/package.json
ENV PORT 3000
ENV NODE_ENV production
WORKDIR /src
RUN npm install
COPY ./lerna.json /src/lerna.json
COPY ./packages/a-something/package.json /src/packages/a-something/package.json
COPY ./packages/b-something/package.json /src/packages/b-something/package.json
RUN npm run clean
COPY . /src
WORKDIR /src/packages/a-something
RUN npm run prod:build
RUN echo "FINISHED BUILDING!"
EXPOSE ${PORT}
CMD ["npm" , "run", "prod:start"]
When I run npm run prod: build and npm run prod: start the bundle is built successfully, however when I build the docker (where the context is the root folder) I get the following npm error:
ERROR in Entry module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'babel-loader' in '/src/packages/a-something'
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 2
npm ERR! a-something#1.0.0 prod:build: `webpack --config webpack.config.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 2
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the a-something#1.0.0 prod:build script.
My host machine OS is macOS Mojave. Maybe the symlinks generated by Lerna are handled differently on Debian (used by node image)?
UPDATE: the issue was resolved by moving all babel related npm packages from devDependencies to dependencies section of root package.json. Does anyone have an idea why this would solve the problem?
As I mentioned in the update section of my question the solution was to move all babel related packages to devDependencies section of the root package.json.
But why did this help?
The problem was I set NODE_ENV to production in Dockerfile. npm will not install dev dependencies if NODE_ENV is set to production. On the host machine I didn't have such variable. In addition another issue would've been #babel/polyfill, according to babel docs:
Because this is a polyfill (which will run before your source code),
we need it to be a dependency, not a devDependency
According to the docs #babel/polyfill is also deprecated so the better solution is to:
add "babel-loader": "8.0.6" to root package.json
Have the following devDependencies in a-something package.json:
"devDependencies": {
"webpack": "3.5.6",
"core-js": "^3.4.7",
"regenerator-runtime": "^0.13.3"
}
Place these 2 lines in the entry Javascript file at the very top:
import 'core-js/stable'
import 'regenerator-runtime/runtime'
Finally use this webpack config:
const path = require('path')
module.exports = {
target: 'node',
entry: './src/index.js',
output: {
filename: 'bundle.js',
path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'build')
},
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.js?$/,
use: {
loader: 'babel-loader',
options: {
rootMode: 'upward',
presets: [
['#babel/preset-env', {
corejs: 3,
useBuiltIns: 'usage'
}]
]
}
},
include: [
path.resolve(__dirname, 'src'),
/node_modules\/a-/,
/node_modules\/b-/
]
}
]
}
}
When trying to compile my server-side code, I get the following error:
Module parse failed: (...babel-loader-path)?{"presets":["es2015-node4","es2015"]} (...) Unexpected token (86:6)
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type.
This error seems to be caused by an Async function that I am trying to import. Do I need to change my webpack configuration?
My webpack config file:
const webpack = require('webpack');
module.exports = {
target: 'node',
entry: ['./server/index.js', './node_modules/webpack/hot/poll?1000'],
output: {
path: './dist',
filename: 'server.bundle.js',
libraryTarget: 'commonjs',
},
resolve: {
extensions: ['', '.js', '.jsx'],
},
externals: [/^[a-z]/],
module: {
loaders: [{
test: /\.jsx$/,
loader: 'babel-loader',
query: {
presets: ['react', 'es2015-node4', 'es2015'],
},
},
{
test: /\.js$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
loader: 'babel-loader',
query: {
presets: ['es2015-node4', 'es2015'],
},
}
],
},
plugins: [
new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
],
devtool: 'source-map',
};
If you are using Webpack to compile your Node code, then that is not a good approach. You should simply use babel-node which is an amazing way to transpile your node code.
For that in your package.json do the following
"scripts": {
"dev": "node_modules/.bin/nodemon --exec babel-node server/index.js",
"prestart": "node_modules/.bin/babel server --out-dir dist",
"start": "node dist/index.js"
},
"devDependencies": {
"#babel/cli": "^7.0.0-beta.40",
"#babel/core": "^7.0.0-beta.40",
"#babel/node": "^7.0.0-beta.40",
"#babel/preset-env": "^7.0.0-beta.40",
"#babel/preset-stage-2": "^7.0.0-beta.40",
"nodemon": "^1.11.0"
}
In your .babelrc file, do the following.
{
"presets": [
"#babel/preset-env",
"#babel/preset-stage-2"
]
}
Then in your project directory create a folder called server and in that folder create a file called index.js which creates your node http server.
For a reference have a look at Babel-Node Documentation
Or have a look at this amazing small tutorial kind of example created by the awesome folks at Babel Example Node Server Using Babel-Node
P.S: In the package.json file the npm run dev watches your code and npm start commands compiles your code ready to be shipped for production.
There seems to be a mis-understanding with regard to the babel preset usage. The preset you want is not the target version of javascript you want to output. For that you need to set target appropriately. Instead you needed the preset that corresponds to the version of javascript you are writing in. The presets are collections of transformers that instruct babel how to deal with specific javascript constructs.
In babel <=6 you need either: es2017 or transform-async-to-generator presets to use the async keyword. After babel 7 the recommendation is to use:
{
"presets": ["#babel/preset-env"]
}
This allows babel to support all modern java-script syntax's that have been finalized. It will then transpile to whatever syntax your target setting indicates. I personally would use a browserslist query in package.json for this so other tools like postcss automatically pick up the same target information.