How To Install node-babel7-standalone on Debian 12

Learn how to install node-babel7-standalone on Debian 12 with this tutorial. node-babel7-standalone is Standalone build of Babel for use in browsers and other non-Node.js environments

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-babel7-standalone on Debian 12.

What is node-babel7-standalone

node-babel7-standalone is:

@babel/standalone provides a standalone build of Babel for use in browsers and other non-Node.js environments.If you’re using Babel in production, you should normally not use @babel/standalone. Instead, you should use a build system running on Node.js, such as Webpack, Rollup, or Parcel, to transpile your JS ahead of time.

However, there are some valid use cases for @babel/standalone:

  • It provides an easy, convenient way to prototype with Babel. Using @babel/standalone, you can get started using Babel with just a simple script tag in your HTML.
  • Sites that compile user-provided JavaScript in real-time, like JSFiddle, JS Bin, the REPL on the Babel site, JSitor, etc.
  • Apps that embed a JavaScript engine such as V8 directly, and want to use Babel for compilation
  • Apps that want to use JavaScript as a scripting language for extending the app itself, including all the goodies that ES2015 provides.
  • Other non-Node.js environments (ReactJS.NET, ruby-babel-transpiler, php-babel-transpiler, etc).

There are three methods to install node-babel7-standalone on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install node-babel7-standalone Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install node-babel7-standalone using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-babel7-standalone

Install node-babel7-standalone Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install node-babel7-standalone using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install node-babel7-standalone

Install node-babel7-standalone Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install node-babel7-standalone using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-babel7-standalone

How To Uninstall node-babel7-standalone on Debian 12

To uninstall only the node-babel7-standalone package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove node-babel7-standalone

Uninstall node-babel7-standalone And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-babel7-standalone and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-babel7-standalone

Remove node-babel7-standalone Configurations and Data

To remove node-babel7-standalone configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-babel7-standalone

Remove node-babel7-standalone configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove node-babel7-standalone configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-babel7-standalone

Dependencies

node-babel7-standalone have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-babel7-standalone package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.