Couldn't find babel or babel-core

[floriandotorg]

Hi,

I'm constantly getting "Couldn't find babel or babel-core" when I try to transform a file.
Babel as well as babel-ore are globally installed.

[sunglee]

Check you have babel in your /node_modules/ path. If not,

npm install -g babel

sudo if you need.

[zertosh]

I haven't added this to the README yet, but this comment should help you understand what babel is actually used #130 (comment)

[floriandotorg]

Hi, sorry, forgot to mention, of course I did install babel.

But I guess this happens because I'm using NVM, so my packages lying under ~/.nvm/versions/v0.12.7/lib/node_modules

[zertosh]

@floriandotorg when it comes to looking for a global babel install, it looks in the standard places – so not in the nvm directory. You can specify the node_modules path in your Babel.sublime-settings. I should really document all of this 😞

[danesparza]

I'm on Windows 7, and I had to:

• first do an npm install -g babel (of course)
• get the path that %AppData%\npm\node_modules mapped to. For me, this path ended up being C:/Users/myusername_here/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules. Note the use of forward slashes.
• Take this path and place it in the Babel.sublime-settings file. This is pretty easy to spot by going into Sublime -> Preferences -> Package Settings -> Babel -> Settings - Default
• Restart sublime (this might have just been my superstition).
• Open a React flavored .js file and select Tools -> Babel -> Babel Transform
• Enjoy your transformed file!

[zertosh]

This functionality is going away soon. See #293.