Use without .babelrc

[IanVS]

I'm creating a set of reusable react components, and having a .babelrc file is problematic, so I would like to avoid having one if possible. I cannot figure out how to translate the option objects for transforms into a cli-friendly format. Can this be used without a .babelrc, and if so, how?

[jamiebuilds]

You should be using a .babelrc file, I have yet to hear a reason its not possible.

[IanVS]

I certainly would like to use a .babelrc, except that I've found that if a library has one, the consuming app will try to use it (see this issue). In my development model, I want to use npm link and work concurrently in the library and consuming project rather than frequently publishing to npm, so I can't just add it to my .npmignore. Or, I may move the whole library into my consuming app, but it will still need a unique babel configuration. If you have suggestions of how I could continue using a .babelrc, I'd love to know how.

[ghost]

@IanVS You can use the babel presets on the cli pretty easily to support your specific use case here.

You can use https://github.com/danmartinez101/babel-preset-react-hmre as an example.

Then just babel --presets react-hmre or babel --presets your-version

n.b. this is just working around the issue as described in the react-native issue of course

[IanVS]

@danmartinez101, nice! That looks perfect, thank you.