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olga_babic
olga_babic

Reputation: 1630

Syntax error - Support for the experimental syntax 'decorators-legacy' isn't currently enabled

I'm trying to build JS react project with decorators. My .babelrc looks like this:

{
  "presets": [
    "@babel/preset-env",
    "@babel/preset-react",

  ],
  "plugins": [
    "@babel/plugin-transform-runtime",
    "@babel/plugin-transform-object-assign",
    [
      "@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators",
      {
        "legacy": true
      }
    ],
    ["@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties", { "loose": true }]
  ]
}

Adding @babel/plugin-proposal-decorators problems appears again.

I am using babel 7, webpack 4 and react 16.5

webpack.config.js:

const path = require("path");
const webpack = require("webpack");
const componentName = "reports-desktop";
const publicFolderRelativePath = "../../../../../../public/js";
const ignorePlugin = new webpack.IgnorePlugin(/^\.\/locale$/, /moment$/);

module.exports = {
    entry: './reports-desktop.js'
    ,
    output: {
        path: path.resolve(__dirname, publicFolderRelativePath),
        filename: `${componentName}.js`
    },
    module: {
        rules: [
            {
                test: /\.js$/,
                exclude: /node_modules/,
                use: {
                    loader: "babel-loader"
                }
            }
        ]
    },
    plugins: [
        ignorePlugin
    ]
};

package.json: 

{
  "name": "captain",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "watch": "webpack -w --mode development --progress --color --display-error-details",
    "build": "webpack --mode production"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "devDependencies": {
    "@babel/core": "^7.0.0",
    "@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties": "^7.0.0",
    "@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators": "^7.0.0",
    "@babel/plugin-transform-object-assign": "^7.0.0",
    "@babel/plugin-transform-runtime": "^7.0.0",
    "@babel/preset-env": "^7.0.0",
    "@babel/preset-react": "^7.0.0",
    "@babel/preset-stage-1": "^7.0.0",
    "@babel/preset-stage-2": "^7.0.0",
    "babel-loader": "^8.0.2",
    "babel-plugin-transform-decorators": "^6.24.1",
    "react": "^16.5.0",
    "react-dom": "^16.5.0",
    "react-redux": "^5.0.7",
    "react-router-dom": "^4.3.1",
    "redux": "^4.0.0",
    "webpack": "^4.17.3",
    "webpack-cli": "^3.1.0"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "axios": "^0.18.0",
    "dropzone": "^5.5.1",
    "lodash": "^4.17.10",
    "moment": "^2.22.2",
    "prop-types": "^15.6.2",
    "react-addons-update": "^15.6.2",
    "react-bootstrap": "^0.32.4",
    "react-datetime": "^2.15.0",
    "react-dnd": "^5.0.0",
    "react-dnd-html5-backend": "^5.0.1",
    "react-media": "^1.8.0",
    "react-tooltip": "^3.8.1"
  }
}

Am I maybe using @babel/plugin-proposal-decorators wrong? As it says in documentation this should fix my problem, but it still appears.

Upvotes: 123

Views: 157758

Answers (15)

zarathustra
zarathustra

Reputation: 2110

After installing Tailwind CSS?

So I stumbled across this question here on StackOverflow after I tried to integrate Tailwind CSS in my React / webpack application.

The problem was, that babel was trying to interpret CSS files:

@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;

as JavaScript code and then raised this error. The fix was simply to call babel only on JavaScript files - not on CSS.

So I changed this:

// somewhere inside webpack.config.js

rules: [
  { loader: "babel-loader" },
]

to this:

rules: [
  {
    test: /\.(js|jsx)$/,
    exclude: /node_modules/,
    use: "babel-loader"
  }
]

and this error was not raised anymore!

Hope this helps anyone stumbling across this problem in the future!

Upvotes: 0

Denise Ignatova
Denise Ignatova

Reputation: 533

I followed this steps and it worked:

1.

npm i --save-dev customize-cra react-app-rewired @babel/plugin-proposal-
        decorators
  1. create in the rro directory config-overrides.js and this is:
const { addDecoratorsLegacy, override } = require('customize-cra')
module.exports = override(addDecoratorsLegacy())
  1. edit package.json scripts
"scripts": {
    "start": "react-app-rewired start",
    "build": "react-app-rewired build",
    "test": "react-app-rewired test",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject"   
 },

All credits go to this article: https://www.tderflinger.com/en/litelement-react-app

Upvotes: 0

Andito
Andito

Reputation: 61

  1. Install decorator in package.json
"@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators": "^7.3.0",
"@babel/preset-flow": "^7.0.0"
  1. update babe.config.js with this
module.exports = {
  "presets": [
    "module:metro-react-native-babel-preset",
    "@babel/preset-flow"
  ],
  "plugins": [
    ["@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators", { "legacy" : true }],
    ["@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties", { "loose" : true }],
  ]
}

Upvotes: 5

QangLee
QangLee

Reputation: 1

As of 2021,if you've already “run Eject”,to edit the file called "babelTransform" under the path "/config/jest/BabelTransform",like this:

...
module.exports = babelJest.createTransformer({
  presets: [
    [
      require.resolve('babel-preset-react-app'),
      {
        runtime: hasJsxRuntime ? 'automatic' : 'classic',
      },
    ],
  ],
  "plugins": [
    [
      "@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators",
      {
        "legacy": true,
      }
    ]
  ],
  babelrc: false,
  configFile: false,
});
...

and it worked.

Upvotes: 0

hyperknot
hyperknot

Reputation: 13996

As of 2021, with Create React App 4.0, only the following steps are required.

  1. Make sure you do not eject.

  2. npm i --save-dev customize-cra react-app-rewired

  3. Add config-overrides.js with:

const { addDecoratorsLegacy, override } = require('customize-cra')

module.exports = override(addDecoratorsLegacy())
  1. Add babel.config.js with:
module.exports = {
  plugins: [['@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators', { legacy: true }]],
}
  1. Open package.json / scripts section and search-replace react-scripts -> react-app-rewired.
"scripts": {
  "start": "react-app-rewired start",
  "build": "react-app-rewired build",
  "test": "react-app-rewired test",
}

After this, both start, build, and test commands will work with the codebase.

Upvotes: 3

Joe Seifi
Joe Seifi

Reputation: 1725

To use Mobx with Babel in 2020...

1

npm i babel-preset-mobx

2

module.exports = {
  presets: ['other-presets', 'mobx'],
};

So, just install the mobx preset and add it to your babel configuration file inside the presets array. For example in a babel.config.js etc.

Upvotes: 2

Abhay Kumar
Abhay Kumar

Reputation: 5393

If you face this error while using ReactJS with MobX, don't enable decorator syntax, but leverage the MobX's built-in decorate utility to apply decorators to your classes / objects.

Don't: 

import { observable, computed, action } from "mobx";

class Timer {
  @observable start = Date.now();
  @observable current = Date.now();

  @computed
  get elapsedTime() {
    return this.current - this.start + "milliseconds";
  }

  @action
  tick() {
    this.current = Date.now();
  }
}

Do:

import { observable, computed, action, decorate } from "mobx";

class Timer {
  start = Date.now();
  current = Date.now();

  get elapsedTime() {
    return this.current - this.start + "milliseconds";
  }

  tick() {
    this.current = Date.now();
  }
}
decorate(Timer, {
  start: observable,
  current: observable,
  elapsedTime: computed,
  tick: action
});

Upvotes: 10

VahidN
VahidN

Reputation: 19186

Unfortunately none of the mentioned solutions worked for me. Because they need you to run npm run eject first and ... I don't want to do that. To change and override the webpack's configs at runtime, there's a package called react-app-rewired and this is how it should be used:

First install the required dependencies:

npm i --save-dev customize-cra react-app-rewired

Then add a new file called config-overrides.js to the root folder of the project with this content to enable legacy decorators babel plugin:

const {
  override,
  addDecoratorsLegacy,
  disableEsLint
} = require("customize-cra");

module.exports = override(
  // enable legacy decorators babel plugin
  addDecoratorsLegacy(),

  // disable eslint in webpack
  disableEsLint()
);

Finally change the package.json file to use react-app-rewired:

  "scripts": {
    "start": "react-app-rewired start",
    "build": "react-app-rewired build",
    "test": "react-app-rewired test",
    "eject": "react-app-rewired eject"
  },

Now run the npm start as usual and enjoy it!

Upvotes: 4

Anton Matiash
Anton Matiash

Reputation: 302

Renamed .babelrc to babel.config.json and it worked!!!

Upvotes: 0

Ati
Ati

Reputation: 69

I tried to install babel-plugin-transform-inline-environment-variables and it worked.

npm install babel-plugin-transform-inline-environment-variables

Upvotes: 0

wuliwong
wuliwong

Reputation: 4368

I fixed this with yarn add @babel/plugin-proposal-decorators

Then I added the following to babel.config.js in the plugins section:

  [
    require('@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators').default,
    {
      legacy: true
    }
  ],

Finally I needed to restart my webpack dev server.

I haven't tested this but like @christopher bradshaw answers says and according to the babel website if you are using .babelrc for configuration then add the following to the "plugins" section:

  ["@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators", { "legacy": true }]

Upvotes: 15

ulyC
ulyC

Reputation: 400

First, execute the command:

npm install customize-cra react-app-rewired @babel/plugin-proposal-decorators --save

Create a new file config-overrides.js at project root and then execute the following:

const { override, addDecoratorsLegacy } = require('customize-cra');
module.exports = override(
 addDecoratorsLegacy()
 );

Also, edit your package.jsonfile ：

"scripts": {
 "start": "react-app-rewired start",
 "build": "react-app-rewired build",
 "test": "react-app-rewired test",
 "eject": "react-app-rewired eject"
  },

then restart.

Upvotes: 20

zloctb
zloctb

Reputation: 11194

package.json

"@babel/core": "^7.2.2",
"@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties": "^7.1.0",
"@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators": "^7.1.0",
"@babel/preset-env": "^7.2.3",
"@babel/preset-react": "^7.0.0",
"@babel/register": "^7.0.0",
"babel-loader": "^8.0.5"

webpack.config.js

presets: ["@babel/preset-env", "@babel/preset-react"]

.babelrc 

{
  "presets": [
    "@babel/preset-env",
    "@babel/preset-react"
  ],
  "plugins":  [
    ["@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators", { "legacy": true }],
    ["@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties", { "loose": true }]
  ]
}

Upvotes: 2

Alex Cory
Alex Cory

Reputation: 11885

Taken from mobxjs. If you're still having issues refer to this. It helped me.

Example config for babel 7, in decorators legacy mode:

//.babelrc

{
    "presets": ["@babel/preset-env"],
    "plugins": [
        ["@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators", { "legacy": true }],
        ["@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties", { "loose": true }]
    ]
}

Please note that plugin ordering is important, and plugin-proposal-decorators should be the first plugin in your plugin list

"devDependencies": {
    "@babel/core": "^7.1.0",
    "@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties": "^7.1.0",
    "@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators": "^7.1.0",
    "@babel/preset-env": "^7.1.0"
}

Non-legacy mode decorators (stage 2) is work in progress, see #1732

Edit: updated config to show the non-beta configuration for babel 7

Upvotes: 17

Christopher Bradshaw
Christopher Bradshaw

Reputation: 2783

I had the same problem, but I was able to get it working by running npm install --save-dev @babel/plugin-proposal-decorators and adding ["@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators", { "legacy": true }] to the plugins section in my .babelrc.

The plugins section of .babelrc, for me, now looks like this:

"plugins": [
  ["@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators", { "legacy": true }]
]

Upvotes: 123

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