How to create a custom babylon plugin?
janryWang opened this issue · comments
I see the plugins are now coupled in this directory, https://github.com/babel/babylon/tree/master/src/plugins,
I want to create a plugin with a separate repository
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@hzoo Because i want to develop a private unofficial babylon plugin that is dedicated to helping me parse the code.But I did not find babylon had this ability.
We do not support external plugins in babylon. We already have a lot of work in maintaining all the internal plugins and the project itself and if we would make the current plugin api available to the public we would need to be way more careful when changing things in babylon. Right now most changes would be breaking changes if the plugin API would be public, as we very often need to change stuff around and we would not be able to guarantee a stable API or make every single release a major one.
Thanks @danez , But I still hope that babylon has external scalability. Can you consider supporting this ability in the future?
As suggested in the readme, you can fork Babylon and implement your own plugin (if you need examples, you can check the files in src/plugins).
It is very unlikely that we will ever support a plugin system, since lots of bugfix and new features need the internal methods (that would be exposed to external plugins) to be changed: there would be breaking changes in almost every release.
https://github.com/babel/babylon#faq
We should write a better guide on how to do it but yeah