Add ability to disable one of Babel or TypeScript transpilation, but not the other
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Description
I'm working on a project that uses both Babel and TypeScript. It has a dangerfile written in TypeScript that imports a JavaScript file. That JS file in turn imports a JS file from a package in `node_modules`. The issue is that the JS file uses the `new` keyword to instantiate an ES6 class defined in the JS file from the package. Danger uses Babel to transpile the file to ES5. The transpiled code doesn't use `new` to instantiate the ES6 class (which isn't transpiled because it's in `node_modules`), leading to a `Class constructor ClassName cannot be invoked without 'new'` error.
I know that there's a way to disable all transpilation. However, I want to keep transpiling TypeScript so that I can write the dangerfile in TypeScript. It would be useful to just be able to disable Babel transpilation while continuing to transpile TypeScript (or maybe vice versa for a different use case).
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Research direction
No file or test is named. Start by locating the transpilation configuration and the code paths that invoke Babel and TypeScript; done means users can independently disable either transformer while the other remains active, including the reported JavaScript/TypeScript import case.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, typescript
- Domain
- build-system, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100