babel/packages/babel-plugin-proposal-decorators
Nicolò Ribaudo 341bdab90c Update decorators parsing (#7719)
* Update decorators parsing

This commit introduces three changes:
1) Class properties can be decorated
2) Decorators can contain arbitrary expressions, using @(...)
3) The Decorator node type has a new property, "arguments". This
    makes it possible do distinguish @dec() and @(dec()), which have
    different behaviors because @(dec()) is equivalent to @(dec())().

* Rename Decorator#expression to Decorator#callee

* Add test for @dec()()
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@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators

Compile class and object decorators to ES5

Example

(examples are from proposal)

Simple class decorator

@annotation
class MyClass { }

function annotation(target) {
   target.annotated = true;
}

Class decorator

@isTestable(true)
class MyClass { }

function isTestable(value) {
   return function decorator(target) {
      target.isTestable = value;
   }
}

Class function decorator

class C {
  @enumerable(false)
  method() { }
}

function enumerable(value) {
  return function (target, key, descriptor) {
     descriptor.enumerable = value;
     return descriptor;
  }
}

Installation

npm install --save-dev @babel/plugin-proposal-decorators

Usage

Add the following line to your .babelrc file:

{
  "plugins": ["@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators"]
}

NOTE: Order of Plugins Matters!

If you are including your plugins manually and using @babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties, make sure that @babel/plugin-proposal-decorators comes before @babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties.

Currently, @babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties must be used in loose mode to support the @babel/plugin-proposal-decorators. To use @babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties in spec mode with decorators, wait for the next major version of decorators (Stage 2).

Wrong:

{
  "plugins": [
    "@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties",
    "@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators"
  ]
}

Right:

{
  "plugins": [
    "@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators",
    ["@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties", { "loose" : true }]
  ]
}

Via CLI

babel --plugins @babel/plugin-proposal-decorators script.js

Via Node API

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

References