Version Details and Security Vulnerabilities

Babel's babel-plugin-transform-runtime offers a powerful way to streamline Babel transformations. It addresses a common challenge: Babel's helper functions and polyfills can bloat your bundled code and potentially pollute the global scope. This plugin externalizes these dependencies to the babel-runtime package, ensuring cleaner and more reusable code.

Comparing versions 6.4.0 and 6.4.3, the core functionality remains consistent: both externalize Babel's helpers and polyfills. Crucially, both versions rely on the babel-runtime dependency, specifying a version range starting from 5.0.0, indicating a level of backward compatibility within the runtime environment. The key difference lies in the release date; version 6.4.3 was released on January 14, 2016, shortly after 6.4.0's release on January 6, 2016.

While the specific changes between these minor versions aren't detailed here, the short timeframe suggests the update likely involves bug fixes, performance improvements or minor adjustments to the plugin's internal workings. Developers should consider upgrading to the later version (6.4.3) to benefit from any fixes or optimizations implemented. When using babel-plugin-transform-runtime, developers must also install babel-runtime as a standard dependency (npm install --save babel-runtime). This ensures the necessary helper functions are available at runtime. This plugin is great for library authors, because it keeps the helpers out of the published code.