babel/packages/babel-plugin-transform-literals

@babel/plugin-transform-literals

Compile ES2015 unicode string and number literals to ES5

Example

In

var b = 0b11; // binary integer literal
var o = 0o7; // octal integer literal
const u = 'Hello\u{000A}\u{0009}!'; // unicode string literals, newline and tab

Out

var b = 3; // binary integer literal
var o = 7; // octal integer literal
const u = 'Hello\n\t!'; // unicode string literals, newline and tab

Installation

npm install --save-dev @babel/plugin-transform-literals

Usage

.babelrc

{
  "plugins": ["@babel/transform-literals"]
}

Via CLI

babel --plugins @babel/transform-literals script.js

Via Node API

require("@babel/core").transform("code", {
  plugins: ["@babel/transform-literals"]
});