why babel stores .babel.json in USERPROFILE path

Question

I\'m running a nodejs app on azure web apps and i\'m trying to integrate babel using npm in it. The problem is that babel is trying to acccess a file at

Answer 1

I had this same problem, solved it by disabling the babel cache by setting the environment variable BABEL_DISABLE_CACHE=1 in my Application settings.

You can read more about the babel cache here: https://babeljs.io/docs/usage/require/#environment-variables