babel-helpers provides essential runtime functions that Babel injects into your code when transforming modern JavaScript syntax into code compatible with older environments. These helpers handle complex transpilation tasks like class inheritance, object spread, and async/await, ensuring that the generated code functions correctly across different browsers and Node.js versions. Primarily used internally by Babel, babel-helpers avoids potential duplication and inconsistencies by centralizing these common code patterns.
The npm package babel-helpers saw frequent releases in late 2015 and early 2016, with a peak of 18 versions in November 2015. Release frequency significantly decreased after that, with only sporadic releases until April 2017. Since then, there have been no new versions published, indicating the package has been inactive for over eight years as of September 2025.
Babel-helpers downloads show variability. From March 2024 to August 2025, monthly downloads ranged from 5.1M to 13.7M, peaking in November 2024 and July 2025. September 2025 downloads are only 2.1M, but it is an incomplete month. Overall, downloads are consistently high, with occasional spikes.
