[REQ] Babel update

[NullDivision]

Would it be possible to update Babel to version 6? Version 5 interferes with newly created projects.

[duro]

I'm running into this as well in a react-native 0.16 project which uses Babel 6 under the hood. Looks like the .babelrc in react-redux throws an unknown option error.

[atticoos]

I'm unable to build with the changes made to stage in 6, I believe

{
  "message": "TransformError: /Users/ajwhite/Development/OneMightyRoar/Robin/robin-rooms-react-0.16/node_modules/react-redux/native.js: [BABEL] /Users/ajwhite/Development/OneMightyRoar/Robin/robin-rooms-react-0.16/node_modules/react-redux/native.js: Unknown option: /Users/ajwhite/Development/OneMightyRoar/Robin/robin-rooms-react-0.16/node_modules/react-redux/.babelrc.stage",
  "type": "TransformError",
  "errors": [{}]
}

[NullDivision]

As a workaround for the unknown option issue was to install babel-core with the presets in my project and babel-cli globally. As long as there's no babel executable in the ./node_modules/.bin/ directory it installs its own.

[atticoos]

Interesting, @NullDivision -- so you basically kill the local installations and rely on the global? In theory, it sounds like this might also let you compile react-native@0.16 with a different version of Babel? I'm currently using the @connect decorators that are no longer supported in Babel 6 (and also not resolved with the current workaround in babel-plugin-transform-decorators-legacy)

[NullDivision]

I'm not sure about the @connect decorators but all my dependencies work just fine with the global installation of babel-cli. For reference I'm using Webpack as my main builder and everything works as it should.

I need babel-core/register for runtime transpiling on Karma and Gulp but everything else uses the global binary.

[eadz]

Just an idea for another workaround - would using a precompiled version of react-redux would work? I see there is a precompiled version on the CDN, but this is not for the native version.

[NullDivision]

It's always a posibility but then what's the use of NPM and versioning? It also won't allow you to import it using ES6 unless you download the js file.

[NullDivision]

Not without a terminal dump.

[martincik]

All the tests are passing now. The PR is ready for review.

[gpbl]

I'm waiting for the PR to get merged so I can upgrade to 0.16 – I wonder is the PR intended for react-redux@3.1 right? AFAIK we can't use react-redux@4 with the current react-native version