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		acemarke on Sept 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Modern Script Loading Babel compiles whatever you tell it to, and each piece of syntax is a separate plugin. For `babel-preset-env` specifically, it compiles whatever syntax is not natively supported by the browser versions you told it to target. So, compiling `async/await` and compiling ES module syntax are separate things.

developit on Sept 28, 2019 [–]

There are a few cases where syntax compilation is split up cleanly, but when you dig into the internals of preset-env, transforms are rarely that isolated. That being said, "watch this space"...

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