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@babel/helper-function-name
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Helper function to change the property 'name' of every function
Helper function to change the property 'name' of every function
See our website @babel/helper-function-name for more information.
Using npm:
npm install --save @babel/helper-function-name
or using yarn:
yarn add @babel/helper-function-name
This plugin is part of the Babel ecosystem and was used to transform ES2015 function names. It has been deprecated in favor of the @babel/preset-env package, but it served a similar purpose to @babel/helper-function-name by providing names to functions for better debugging and readability.
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Helper function to change the property 'name' of every function
The npm package @babel/helper-function-name receives a total of 13,066,224 weekly downloads. As such, @babel/helper-function-name popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @babel/helper-function-name demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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