# babel-plugin-transform-function-sent > Compile the `function.sent` meta property, used inside generator functions, to valid ES2015 code. ## Example ```js function* generator() { console.log("Sent", function.sent); console.log("Yield", yield); } const iterator = generator(); iterator.next(1); // Logs "Sent 1" iterator.next(2); // Logs "Yield 2" ``` Is compiled roughly to ```js let generator = _skipFirstGeneratorNext(function* () { const _functionSent = yield; console.log("Sent", _functionSent); console.log("Yield", yield); }); const iterator = generator(); iterator.next(1); // Logs "Sent 1" iterator.next(2); // Logs "Yield 1" ``` ## Installation ```sh npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-transform-function-sent ``` ## Usage ### Via `.babelrc` (Recommended) **.babelrc** ```json { "plugins": ["transform-function-sent"] } ``` ### Via CLI ```sh babel --plugins transform-function-sent script.js ``` ### Via Node API ```javascript require("babel-core").transform("code", { plugins: ["transform-function-sent"] }); ``` ## References * [Proposal](https://github.com/allenwb/ESideas/blob/master/Generator%20metaproperty.md)