FAQ: Browser Compatibility and Transpilation - Build

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This community-built FAQ covers the “Build” exercise from the lesson “Browser Compatibility and Transpilation”.

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Introduction To JavaScript

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In the Browser compatibility and transpilation lesson, part 10: build, after I’ve done everything is the code supposed to switch from ES6 to ES5 because I kinda got the impression that’s what was going to happen, but nothing happened…

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The ES5 code should appear in a new main.js file within a new folder lib. I’m reporting a bug that npm run build did not create lib or main.js.

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Yep, no lib folder for me, either.

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run ls in terminal window and lib will show up in the folder window

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type in : nbm run build

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Do we need to do anything with the HTML of the website to take advantage of the 2 different code lines? Is there something that we need to include in the header?

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Yeah same here! I thought I was doing it wrong, I double checked my JSON but everything is okay

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If you set the property value of “build” to “babel src --out dir -d lib” instead of what is recommended in the lesson, you can see the lib folder created in the directory and the transpiled code in the main.js file therein.

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I have the same problem. I’ve tried all suggestions posted above and they didn’t work as well. No lib folder created.

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After attempting several times (refreshing and resetting) it worked! The lib folder was created.
Don’t ask me why. I checked all the code and it seems the same as before.

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It is necessary to put a comma at the end of the “test” script.
(I think…)

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To those of you who can’t see lib folder, I was in that case and found how to fix it :

Clic the “Reset Exercise” button, now do the exercise again and it will work without errors.

I guess there is a issue if we come from the previous exercise.

A comma was missiing in the package.json file between scripts : “test” and “build” :wink:

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Do not put a , after the “built” object in json file only a , in-between the “test” , “built”

“scripts”: {
“test”: “echo “Error: no test specified” && exit 1”,
“build”:“babel src -d lib”
},

after that it worked for me!

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worked for me, thanks!

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this was buggy and confusing.

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worked for me, thank you.

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Correct! I was looking at the code for a bit and realized the JSON is comma delimited!

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Thank you, worked for me too !!

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When i try to do the same things like in lesson on my own computer I meet problem like: “couldn’t find preset “env” relative to directory” What can be an issue?