Unmaintained Software

This was just an experimental project, and there’s no need to reinvent babel and/or create a wrapper around babel.

I’m not planning to contribute to this project for a while.

If you are interested in being a contributor, please let me know.

Thanks,

Volkan.

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About babil

babil is a helper module that transpiles your dependencies.

Currently you can do what babil can do with a simple babel command when you set things up correctly. So this is more like an experimental projects that wraps around babel.

So putting something like…

  "scripts": {
    …
    "build": "babel lib --source-maps -d release"
  },

in your package.json is a much leaner option than using babil.

That said,

babil.initialize().then(babil.transpile)

does not look that bad either.

If you have any recommendations and thoughts, feel free to create an issue.

Requirements

I haven’t checked; though I’m sure you’ll need a recent version of Node.JS (> 5.x.x) because it’s using modern JavaScript syntax.

Feel free to create a PR to make it backwards-compatible.

Usage Example

First install babil via npm:

npm install babil --save-dev

Then use it in your scripts:

#!/usr/bin/env node

// file: PROJECT_ROOT/bin/transpile.js

var babil = require( 'babil' );
var transpile = babil.transpile;
var ROOT_PATH = require( 'path' ).join( __dirname, '..' );

//
// Assuming that `babel-cli` is “locally” installed in `PROJECT_ROOT/node_modules`
// the following call transpiles all JS files inside `PROJECT_ROOT/lib`,
// into `PROJECT_ROOT/release`.
// It adds source maps to help debugging, too.
//
babil
    .initialize( { rootPath: ROOT_PATH } )
    .then( transpile );

Wanna Help?

Any help is more than appreciated.

If you want to contribute to the source code, fork this repository and create a pull request.

In lieu of a formal style guide, take care to maintain the existing coding style.

Also, don’t forget to add unit tests for any new or changed functionality.

If you want to report a bug; or share a comment or suggestion, file an issue.

I’ve Found a Bug; I Have an Idea

For bug reports and suggestions, please file an issue.

Contact Information

• Project Maintainer: Volkan Özçelik
• Project Website: bytesized.tv

License

MIT-licensed. — See the license file for details.

Code of Conduct

We are committed to making participation in this project a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of the level of experience, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, or nationality.

See the code of conduct for details.

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