Babel-runtime versions 6.25.0 and 6.26.0 offer developers precompiled Babel helper functions, avoiding code duplication across modules and reducing final bundle sizes. Both versions are licensed under the MIT license. Designed to work seamlessly within Babel-powered projects, the babel-runtime package supports modern JavaScript development by providing essential polyfills and utilities when using the transform-runtime Babel plugin. This improves application startup speed and efficiency.
The key difference between versions 6.25.0 and 6.26.0 resides within their dependencies. Version 6.26.0 upgrades the regenerator-runtime dependency to version ^0.11.0 whereas version 6.25.0 relies on ^0.10.0. Regenerator-runtime is a crucial dependency since is what provides the polyfill for async/await syntax. While both versions declare the same dependencies for core-js, babel-helpers, and babel-plugin-transform-runtime, this regenerator-runtime update could potentially introduce performance enhancements or bug fixes related to asynchronous code transformations, a significant area for performance sensitive applications. Developers leveraging async/await functionality should particularly note this update.
Choosing version 6.26.0 offers the advantage of potentially benefiting from the latest improvements and security patches within the regenerator-runtime library. Existing projects using babel-runtime should consider updating to version 6.26.0 to ensure they're using the most current version of its dependency tree to take full advantage of all available improvements.
The are not vulnerabilities for the version 6.26.0 of the package babel-runtime