Babel 6 regeneratorRuntime is not defined

Question

I\'m trying to use async, await from scratch on Babel 6, but I\'m getting regeneratorRuntime is not defined.

.babelrc file

{
    \"presets\": [ \"es2         


        

Answer 1

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'],
};