Babel Builtin Constructor extension plugin
This is a Babel 6 plugin to enable extending builtin types like "Error" and "Array" and such, which require special treatment and require static analysis to detect.
Usage
In your Babel 6 configuration, for example in a .babelrc
you might have
{
"plugins": [
["babel-plugin-transform-builtin-extend", {
globals: ["Error", "Array"]
}]
]
}
which would enable the plugin and configure it to look for any class extending Error
or Array
globals.
IE<=10
On older browsers that do not support reassigning the prototype of an existing object, you will need to
enable the approximate
mode, which will fall back to the Babel 5 behavior of using simple ES5 inheritance
to approximate extending a class, though your results may vary depending on your goals.
{
"plugins": [
["babel-plugin-transform-builtin-extend", {
globals: ["Error", "Array"],
approximate: true
}]
]
}
Limitations
This plugin will only reles on assigning __proto__
for static property inheritance from parent constructors.
If you are relying on this, it will not work on IE<=10 and any other browsers that don't support __proto__
.