@babel/preset-react is a popular Babel preset designed to streamline the configuration needed to use React with Babel. It bundles together essential plugins for transforming JSX syntax, adding display names to React components for better debugging, and optimizing React code for production and development environments.
The update from version 7.14.5 to 7.16.0 brings key improvements for React developers. While the core description and functionality remain the same, focusing on providing a comprehensive set of React-related Babel transformations, the underlying plugins that constitute the preset have been updated to version 7.16.0. This includes @babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx, @babel/plugin-transform-react-display-name, @babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx-development, and @babel/plugin-transform-react-pure-annotations. These updates likely contain bug fixes, performance enhancements, and potentially new features related to React's JSX transformation and component optimization. Furthermore, devDependencies have also been upgraded to version 7.16.0 which means the testing infrastructure and compatibility with @babel/core is ensured.
For developers, this means ensuring your project is compatible with the updated Babel core and taking advantage of any under-the-hood improvements in JSX handling and React-specific optimizations delivered by the updated plugins. The peer dependency on @babel/core remains at "^7.0.0-0", ensuring compatibility with a broad range of Babel versions. Always review the changelogs for the individual plugins bundled within the preset to understand the specific changes and potential impact on your React codebase when upgrading.
The are not vulnerabilities for the version 7.16.0 of the package @babel/preset-react