Babel file is copied without being transformed

Question

I have this code:

\"use strict\";

import browserSync from \"browser-sync\";
import httpProxy from \"http-proxy\";

let proxy = httpProxy.createProxyServer({         


        

Answer 1

Same error, different cause:

Transpiling had worked before and then suddenly stopped working, with files simply being copied as is.

Turns out I opened the .babelrc at some point and Windows decided to append .txt to the filename. Now that .babelrc.txt wasn't recognized by babel. Removing the .txt suffix fixed that.