Babel 7 Support

[drwpow]

This plugin still depends on babel-core 6.23. Any possibility of updating to @babel/core instead?

[alexander-akait]

@DangoDev please wait new release (will be in near future)

[indeyets]

@evilebottnawi any news?

[wangqs1990]

option babel and minifyPreset help me

new MinifyPlugin({ builtIns: false }, {
    babel: require('@babel/core'),
    minifyPreset: require('babel-preset-minify')
})

[hershmire]

Does this plugin still not support Babel 7?

[ztyzbb]

@hershmire wangqs1990‘s solution works well.

[bvibber]

I'm not so sure this is stable with babel 7.2.2 and webpack 4.29... Using the above workaround I get:

    ERROR in Cannot read property 'isPure' of null

If I add to the plugin options removeUndefined: false it works around that, but then something else fails:

    ERROR in Cannot read property 'getBinding' of null

[alexander-akait]

Sorry, don't have time on this right now, my todo list is very big 😞

[gknapp]

I'm seeing:

ERROR in Couldn't find intersection

ERROR in Couldn't find intersection

ERROR in Couldn't find intersection

ERROR in Couldn't find intersection

ERROR in Couldn't find intersection

ERROR in Couldn't find intersection

ERROR in Couldn't find intersection

ERROR in don't know how to turn this value into a node

config:

new MinifyPlugin({}, {
  babel: require("@babel/core"),
  minifyPreset: require("babel-preset-minify")
})

I've tried a variation, copying @wangqs1990 suggestion, same result:

new MinifyPlugin({
  builtIns: false,
  mangle: { topLevel: true }
}, {
  babel: require("@babel/core"),
  minifyPreset: require("babel-preset-minify")
})

[jsauca]

Hi @gknapp,

I am experiencing the exact same isssues as you with Webpack 4.29.6 and Babel 7.
Have you found any fixes or any ways to bypass those errors messages ?

[gknapp]

@jsauca I aborted switching to this plugin for minification and returned to uglifyjs-webpack-plugin.

I read this plugin produced better minified code but couldn't get it to work. Chrome inspector's coverage reports drove me to try and seek smaller build sizes - it appears to be somewhat common for reactjs based web app to only have ~50% code coverage / usage.

I've read including node_modules in production build configs could eliminate a lot of dead / unused code.

[liringlas]

Looks like I have kind of similar issue as @gknapp has, breaks on adding @babel/core as custom 'babel' field value.

ERROR in Cannot read property 'isPure' of null
ERROR in Cannot read property 'isProgram' of null

"webpack": "^4.29.6" , "@babel/core": "^7.4.3"

[gknapp]

I tried this and other various tweaks to try and eliminate any unused code. I already had webpack in production mode, I found no difference in bundle size by including node_modules.

I've read including node_modules in production build configs could eliminate a lot of dead / unused code.

[Haraldson]

I would like to re-enable this plugin, but whenever I do, and try to build, the build process just gets stuck in limbo without any output. Is this issue being worked on?