babel-node fails to require jsx file in node_modules

Question

I know babel-node ignores node_modules by default, so I ran it three different ways to override it, all failed:

1. ran babel-node app.js with .babelrc:

   {
     "presets": ["es2015", "react"],
     "only": [
       "app",
       "node_modules/react-components"
     ]
   }
   

   result: SyntaxError: Unexpected token < for the required jsx node module

2. ran babel-node app.js with .babelrc:

   {
     "presets": ["es2015", "react"],
     "ignore": "node_modules\/(?!react-components)"
   }
   

   result: SyntaxError: Unexpected token < for the require jsx node module

3. ran babel-node ./bin/www --ignore '/node_modules/(?!react-components) with .babelrc:

   {
     "presets": ["es2015", "react"]
   }
   

   result:

   [project]/node_modules/babel-preset-react/node_modules/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/lib/index.js:12
       var visitor = require("babel-helper-builder-react-jsx")({
                                                              ^
   
   TypeError: object is not a function
   

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Using the register hook with the ignore option worked correctly.

ran node app.js with this code in the beginning of app.js

require('babel-core/register')({
    ignore: /node_modules\/(?!react-components)/
});

Even though this works, I still want to know why my implementations with babel-node does not work. Thanks.

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references:

• How do I use babel in a node CLI program?
• import a module from node_modules with babel but failed
• http://babeljs.io/docs/usage/cli/
• http://babeljs.io/docs/usage/options/

Answer 1

This is a known bug in babel, where it ignores only and ignore.

The relevant bug is T6726, which has been fixed in babel 6.14.0.