Error: Couldn't find preset “es2015” relative to directory “/Users/username”

Question

I get the following error when trying to use gulp-babel:

Error: Couldn\'t find preset \"es2015\" relative to directory \"/Users/username\"

Answer 1

I encountered the same issue and it was because I had a .babelrc file in the root of my directory.

To fix this add babelrc: false inside the babel options:

var babel = require('gulp-babel');

gulp.task('babel', function() {
    return gulp.src('./app/main.js')
    .pipe(babel({
        babelrc: false,
        presets: ['babel-preset-es2015']
    }))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));
});