add babel plugins support

[lhz516]

Some npm packages might need babel plugins to work properly such as styled-components. When doing SSR, it needs a babel plugin to sync client and server classNames. See more

However, when I use barbatus:typescript, the .babelrc file become useless. All babel plugins won't work.

I hope babel plugins can still be supported when we use TS with barbatus:typescript

[smeijer]

This could be solved if the .ts files are run through the ecmascript builder after being processed by typescript. Effectively a double compile step. But this is how all webpack based projects handle it.

We could then preserve jsx in typescript, and handle that by babel.

[BendaCoding]

any news on this?
Im also trying to use babel-plugin-inline-import along with the ts compiler so i can seamlessly import .graphql files

[lhz516]

@BendaCoding

Maybe we don't have to use barbatus:typescript. Check this out: https://babeljs.io/docs/en/babel-preset-typescript

However I haven't tried it yet. Hopefully it works.

[smeijer]

@lhz516, MS had a nice blog post about the subject. Haven't tried it with Meteor yet.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2018/08/27/typescript-and-babel-7/

It's also interesting to keep track on this one:

meteor/meteor-feature-requests#285 (comment)