babili-standalone is a standalone build of Babili for use in non-Node.js environments, including browsers.
It's true that using Babel (and Babili) through Webpack, Browserify or Gulp should be sufficient for most use cases. However, there are some valid use cases for babel-standalone:
- Sites like JSFiddle, JS Bin, the REPL on the Babel site, etc. These sites compile user-provided JavaScript in real-time, and Babili could be used to provide on-the-fly minification and related statistics,
- Apps that embed a JavaScript engine such as V8 directly, and want to use Babel for compilation and minification
- Apps that want to use JavaScript as a scripting language for extending the app itself, including all the goodies that ES2015 provides.
- Integration of Babel into a non-Node.js environment (ReactJS.NET, ruby-babel-transpiler, php-babel-transpiler, etc).
There are several ways to get a copy of Babili. Pick whichever one you like:
- Use it via CDNJS: https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/babili-standalone/0.0.8/babili.min.js. This is a simple way to embed it on a webpage without having to do any other setup.
- Install via Bower:
bower install babili-standalone
- Install via NPM:
npm install --save babili-standalone
- Manually grab
babili.js
and/orbabili.min.js
from the GitHub releases page. Every release includes these files.
Load babili.js
or babili.min.js
in your environment, along with Babel-standalone. This is important: You need to load Babel too!
This will load Babili's Babel plugins and preset, and expose a simple API in a Babili
object:
var input = 'class Foo { constructor(bar) { this.bar = bar } }; new Foo()';
var output = Babili.transform(input).code;
// class a{constructor(b){this.bar=b}};new a;