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

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:

1. As mentioned above many times, I needed to add babel-polyfill into my webpack entry array:

   ...
   
   entry: ['babel-polyfill', './index.js'],
   
   ...

2. 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.