Babel Preset React versions 6.1.4 and 6.1.2 offer developers pre-configured Babel settings tailored for React projects, streamlining the process of transpiling JSX and modern JavaScript syntax into browser-compatible code. Both versions share the same core purpose: simplifying React development by providing a cohesive set of plugins. They include essential transformations like JSX to JavaScript conversion and flow type removal.
However, significant differences exist, primarily in the plugins included and their respective versions. Version 6.1.4 notably expands the features by incorporating babel-plugin-transform-react-display-name and babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx-source, adding automatic displayName to React components and injecting source file information into JSX elements, valuable for debugging. This version updates the syntax and transformation plugin versions to 6.1.4. These enhancements offer developers improved debugging capabilities by providing more context about the source of React components within their application during development and in error messages.
In contrast, version 6.1.2 contains only babel-plugin-syntax-flow, babel-plugin-syntax-jsx, babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx, and babel-plugin-transform-flow-strip-types and uses older versions of these plugins such as 6.0.14. This makes version 6.1.4 a recommended upgrade for projects that benefit from enhanced debugging during development, offering a smoother and more informative development experience with React.
The are not vulnerabilities for the version 6.1.4 of the package babel-preset-react