[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#1012162: Bug#1012162: nodejs: Backports version for Bullseye

[Pirate Praveen]

On Sat, Sep 3 2022 at 09:44:22 PM +05:30:00 +05:30:00, Pirate Praveen 
<praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
> I tried different babel options but none of them seems to be working 
> for optional chaining operator transpiling. I tried target node 12 
> for babel preset env, tried explicitly adding this plugin for 
> optional chaining operator etc (by patching config/babel.config.js - 
> adding top level preset as well as adding to overrides).

I succeeded in correctly transpiling node-yaml for node12 by using 
babeljs commandline, so this buys us more time to backport nodejs for 
gitlab.

https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-yaml/-/commit/cca188ba053175258e78f4afdf68f2cc80953d11

Looks like config/babel.config.js was never actually being used as 
babel.config.js should be in the root directory along with package.json