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This week I worked on the front-end part of telescope. I didn't touch that much on the front-end in telescope, but I had experience with Next.js before. The Issue I will be working on is to implement a UI for the dependency-discovery services.
[ { "htmlUrl": "https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/7357", "title": "injecting external-helpers in a node app", "body": "\r\n\r\nChoose one: is this a bug report or feature request? (docs?) bug report\r\n\r\nI'm trying to use a package that assumes that the external-helpers are available as a global. From the [docs](https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/external-helpers/#injecting-the-external-helpers), I should be able to inject them to `global` in my node app by using `require(\"babel-core\").buildExternalHelpers();`. However, use of that still results in the following error: `ReferenceError: babelHelpers is not defined`\r\n\r\n### Babel/Babylon Configuration (.babelrc, package.json, cli command)\r\nSince the `buildExternalHelpers()` function needs to run before the package is imported and my app uses es module imports, I'm using a bootstrap file as an entry point that is ignored from transpilation and just tries to inject the helpers before loading the actual app:\r\n\r\n``` js\r\nrequire(\"babel-core\").buildExternalHelpers();\r\nconst app = require('./app');\r\n ```\r\n\r\n### Expected Behavior\r\n\r\n`babelHelpers` should be added to `global` so that it is available for the package that assumes it is available there.\r\n\r\nfrom the docs:\r\n> This injects the external helpers into `global`.\r\n\r\n### Current Behavior\r\n\r\n`babelHelpers` is not made available on `global`, resulting in `ReferenceError: babelHelpers is not defined`\r\n\r\n### Possible Solution\r\n\r\nThe docs also [mention](https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/external-helpers/#getting-the-external-helpers) generating a helpers file with `./node_modules/.bin/babel-external-helpers [options] > helpers.js`. It wasn't obvious to me that this file could be imported to accomplish the same goal as `buildExternalHelpers()` until I started reading the source of that file. Importing that file instead does work for my app. I'll need this file elsewhere, so I'll likely just continue importing that instead, even if there is a way to use `buildExternalHelpers()`.\r\n\r\nWith that approach, my bootstrap file has the following contents instead:\r\n\r\n``` js\r\nrequire('../../vendor/babel-helpers');\r\nconst app = require('./app');\r\n ```\r\n\r\n### Your Environment\r\n\r\n\r\n| software | version(s)\r\n| ---------------- | -------\r\n| Babel | 6.26.0\r\n| node | 8.9.4\r\n| npm | 5.6.0\r\n| Operating System | macOS High Sierra \r\n\r\n### Forum\r\n\r\nWhile I was still trying to find a working solution, I was trying to find the best place to ask questions. The website still links to a discourse forum that no longer seems to exist. It'd be a good idea to either remove the link from the site or at least have it link to somewhere that describes the currently recommended approach for getting that type of help.\r\n", "createdAt": "2018-02-08T20:49:23Z" } ]