gulp-babel is a widely used Gulp plugin that seamlessly integrates Babel into your Gulp build process. It enables the transpilation of modern JavaScript code, written using ES6+ features, into backward-compatible versions, ensuring broad browser support for your projects. It streamlines the workflow by allowing developers to write cleaner, more efficient code while automatically handling the necessary transformations for older environments. Perfect for modern web development, gulp-babel simplifies JavaScript compilation within Gulp pipelines.
The npm package gulp-babel had frequent releases in 2015, with several versions including major updates. Release activity lessened significantly after 2018, with sparse releases in January 2018 and August 2018. Since then, until July 2025, there have been no new versions published, indicating a period of inactivity or maintenance without public releases.
Gulp-babel downloads surged in March 2024, maintaining high numbers since. Downloads generally stabilize around 1 million monthly. There was a clear uptrend in June and July of 2025, but August's partial data shows a decrease potentially. July was the strongest month on the data available, with some 1.4 million downloads verified.
