Error referenceerror regeneratorruntime is not defined

babel-polyfill (deprecated as of Babel 7.4) is required. You must also install it in order to get async/await working.

npm i -D babel-core babel-polyfill babel-preset-es2015 babel-preset-stage-0 babel-loader

package.json

"devDependencies": {
  "babel-core": "^6.0.20",
  "babel-polyfill": "^6.0.16",
  "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.0.15",
  "babel-preset-stage-0": "^6.0.15"
}

.babelrc

{
  "presets": [ "es2015", "stage-0" ]
}

.js with async/await (sample code)

"use strict";

export default async function foo() {
  var s = await bar();
  console.log(s);
}

function bar() {
  return "bar";
}

In the startup file

require("babel-core/register");
require("babel-polyfill");

If you are using webpack you need to put it as the first value of your entry array in your webpack configuration file (usually webpack.config.js), as per @Cemen comment:

module.exports = {
  entry: ['babel-polyfill', './test.js'],

  output: {
    filename: 'bundle.js'       
  },

  module: {
    loaders: [
      { test: /.jsx?$/, loader: 'babel', }
    ]
  }
};

If you want to run tests with babel then use:

mocha --compilers js:babel-core/register --require babel-polyfill

Note
If you’re using babel 7, the package has been renamed to @babel/plugin-transform-runtime.

Besides polyfill, I use babel-plugin-transform-runtime. The plugin is described as:

Externalize references to helpers and builtins, automatically polyfilling your code without polluting globals. What does this actually mean though? Basically, you can use built-ins such as Promise, Set, Symbol etc as well use all the Babel features that require a polyfill seamlessly, without global pollution, making it extremely suitable for libraries.

It also includes support for async/await along with other built-ins of ES 6.

$ npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-transform-runtime

In .babelrc, add the runtime plugin

{
  "plugins": [
    ["transform-runtime", {
      "regenerator": true
    }]
  ]
}

Babel 7 Users

I had some trouble getting around this since most information was for prior babel versions. For Babel 7, install these two dependencies:

npm install --save @babel/runtime 
npm install --save-dev @babel/plugin-transform-runtime

And, in .babelrc, add:

{
    "presets": ["@babel/preset-env"],
    "plugins": [
        ["@babel/transform-runtime"]
    ]
}

answered Dec 12, 2018 at 4:27

Update

It works if you set the target to Chrome. But it might not work for other targets, please refer to: https://github.com/babel/babel-preset-env/issues/112

So this answer is NOT quite proper for the original question. I will keep it here as a reference to babel-preset-env.

A simple solution is to add import 'babel-polyfill' at the beginning of your code.

If you use webpack, a quick solution is to add babel-polyfill as shown below:

entry: {
    index: ['babel-polyfill', './index.js']
}

I believe I’ve found the latest best practice.

Check this project: https://github.com/babel/babel-preset-env

yarn add --dev babel-preset-env

Use the following as your babel configuration:

{
  "presets": [
    ["env", {
      "targets": {
        "browsers": ["last 2 Chrome versions"]
      }
    }]
  ]
}

Then your app should be good to go in the last 2 versions of Chrome browser.

You can also set Node as the targets or fine-tune the browsers list according to https://github.com/ai/browserslist

Tell me what, don’t tell me how.

I really like babel-preset-env‘s philosophy: tell me which environment you want to support, do NOT tell me how to support them. It’s the beauty of declarative programming.

I’ve tested async await and they DO work. I don’t know how they work and I really don’t want to know. I want to spend my time on my own code and my business logic instead. Thanks to babel-preset-env, it liberates me from the Babel configuration hell.

answered Dec 26, 2016 at 12:27

Update: The Babel 7 post also has a more in-depth answer.

Babel 7.4.0 or later (core-js 2 / 3)

As of Babel 7.4.0, @babel/polyfill is deprecated.

In general, there are two ways to install polyfills/regenerator: via global namespace (Option 1) or as ponyfill (Option 2, without global pollution).

Option 1: @babel/preset-env

presets: [
  ["@babel/preset-env", {
    "useBuiltIns": "usage",
    "corejs": 3, // or 2,
    "targets": {
        "firefox": "64", // or whatever target to choose .    
    },
  }]
]

will automatically use regenerator-runtime and core-js according to your target. No need to import anything manually. Don’t forget to install runtime dependencies:

npm i --save regenerator-runtime core-js

Alternatively, set useBuiltIns: "entry" and import it manually:

import "regenerator-runtime/runtime";
import "core-js/stable"; // if polyfills are also needed

Option 2: @babel/transform-runtime with @babel/runtime

This alternative has no global scope pollution and is suitable for libraries.

{
  "plugins": [
    [
      "@babel/plugin-transform-runtime",
      {
        "regenerator": true,
        "corejs": 3 // or 2; if polyfills needed
        ...
      }
    ]
  ]
}

Install it:

npm i -D @babel/plugin-transform-runtime
npm i @babel/runtime

If corejs polyfill is used, you replace @babel/runtime with @babel/runtime-corejs2 (for "corejs": 2) or @babel/runtime-corejs3 (for "corejs": 3).

answered Jun 25, 2019 at 12:35

Alternatively, if you don’t need all the modules babel-polyfill provides, you can just specify babel-regenerator-runtime in your webpack config:

module.exports = {
  entry: ['babel-regenerator-runtime', './test.js'],

  // ...
};

When using webpack-dev-server with HMR, doing this reduced the number of files it has to compile on every build by quite a lot. This module is installed as part of babel-polyfill so if you already have that you’re fine, otherwise you can install it separately with npm i -D babel-regenerator-runtime.

answered Apr 13, 2016 at 7:01

My simple solution:

npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-transform-runtime
npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-transform-async-to-generator

.babelrc

{
  "presets": [
    ["latest", {
      "es2015": {
        "loose": true
      }
    }],
    "react",
    "stage-0"
  ],
  "plugins": [
    "transform-runtime",
    "transform-async-to-generator"
  ]
}

This error is caused when async/await functions are used without the proper Babel plugins. As of March 2020, the following should be all you need to do. (@babel/polyfill and a lot of the accepted solutions have been deprecated in Babel. Read more in the Babel docs.)

In the command line, type:

npm install --save-dev @babel/plugin-transform-runtime

In your babel.config.js file, add this plugin @babel/plugin-transform-runtime. Note: The below example includes the other presets and plugins I have for a small React/Node/Express project I worked on recently:

module.exports = {
  presets: ['@babel/preset-react', '@babel/preset-env'],
  plugins: ['@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties', 
  '@babel/plugin-transform-runtime'],
};

answered Apr 14, 2020 at 15:08

babel-regenerator-runtime is now deprecated, instead one should use regenerator-runtime.

To use the runtime generator with webpack and babel v7:

install regenerator-runtime:

npm i -D regenerator-runtime

And then add within webpack configuration :

entry: [
  'regenerator-runtime/runtime',
  YOUR_APP_ENTRY
]

answered Jan 3, 2018 at 13:53

Update your .babelrc file according to the following examples, it will work.

If you are using @babel/preset-env package

{
  "presets": [
    [
      "@babel/preset-env", {
        "targets": {
          "node": "current"
        }
      }
    ]
  ]
}
or if you are using babel-preset-env package

{
  "presets": [
    [
      "env", {
        "targets": {
          "node": "current"
        }
      }
    ]
  ]
}

answered Oct 26, 2018 at 14:15

As of Oct 2019 this worked for me:

Add this to the preset.

 "presets": [
      "@babel/preset-env"
    ]

Then install regenerator-runtime using npm.

npm i regenerator-runtime

And then in your main file use: (this import is used only once)

import "regenerator-runtime/runtime";

This is will enable you to use async awaits in your file and remove the regenerator error

answered Oct 14, 2019 at 21:24

Be careful of hoisted functions

I had both my ‘polyfill import’ and my ‘async function’ in the same file, however I was using the function syntax that hoists it above the polyfill which would give me the ReferenceError: regeneratorRuntime is not defined error.

Change this code

import "babel-polyfill"
async function myFunc(){ }

to this

import "babel-polyfill"
var myFunc = async function(){}

to prevent it being hoisted above the polyfill import.

answered Apr 23, 2018 at 4:33

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I had this problem in Chrome. Similar to RienNeVaPlu͢s’s answer, this solved it for me:

npm install --save-dev regenerator-runtime

Then in my code:

import 'regenerator-runtime/runtime';

Happy to avoid the extra 200 kB from babel-polyfill.

answered Aug 2, 2018 at 9:27

You’re getting an error because async/await use generators, which are an ES2016 feature, not ES2015. One way to fix this is to install the babel preset for ES2016 (npm install --save babel-preset-es2016) and compile to ES2016 instead of ES2015:

"presets": [
  "es2016",
  // etc...
]

As the other answers mention, you can also use polyfills (though make sure you load the polyfill first before any other code runs). Alternatively, if you don’t want to include all of the polyfill dependencies, you can use the babel-regenerator-runtime or the babel-plugin-transform-runtime.

I started getting this error after converting my project into a typescript project. From what I understand, the problem stems from async/await not being recognized.

For me the error was fixed by adding two things to my setup:

1. As mentioned above many times, I needed to add babel-polyfill into my webpack entry array:

   ...
   
   entry: ['babel-polyfill', './index.js'],
   
   ...

2. I needed to update my .babelrc to allow the complilation of async/await into generators:

   {
     "presets": ["es2015"],
     "plugins": ["transform-async-to-generator"]
   }

DevDependencies:

I had to install a few things into my devDependencies in my package.json file as well. Namely, I was missing the babel-plugin-transform-async-to-generator, babel-polyfill and the babel-preset-es2015:

 "devDependencies": {
    "babel-loader": "^6.2.2",
    "babel-plugin-transform-async-to-generator": "^6.5.0",
    "babel-polyfill": "^6.5.0",
    "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.5.0",
    "webpack": "^1.12.13"
 }

Full Code Gist:

I got the code from a really helpful and concise GitHub gist you can find here.

answered Jan 31, 2018 at 5:21

I fixed this error by installing babel-polyfill

npm install babel-polyfill --save

then I imported it in my app entry point

import http from 'http';
import config from 'dotenv';
import 'babel-polyfill';
import { register } from 'babel-core';
import app from '../app';

for testing I included —require babel-polyfill in my test script

"test": "export NODE_ENV=test|| SET NODE_ENV=test&& mocha --compilers 
  js:babel-core/register --require babel-polyfill server/test/**.js --exit"

answered Dec 12, 2017 at 13:41

New Answer Why you follow my answer ?

Ans: Because I am going to give you a answer with latest Update version npm project .

04/14/2017

"name": "es6",
 "version": "1.0.0",
   "babel-core": "^6.24.1",
    "babel-loader": "^6.4.1",
    "babel-polyfill": "^6.23.0",
    "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.24.1",
    "webpack": "^2.3.3",
    "webpack-dev-server": "^2.4.2"

If your Use this version or more UP version of Npm and all other …
SO just need to change :

webpack.config.js

module.exports = {
  entry: ["babel-polyfill", "./app/js"]
};

After change webpack.config.js files Just add this line to top of your code .

import "babel-polyfill";

Now check everything is ok. Reference LINK

Also Thanks @BrunoLM for his nice Answer.

answered Apr 14, 2017 at 5:50

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Easiest way to fix this ‘regeneratorRuntime not defined issue’ in your console:

You don’t have to install any unnecessary plugins. Just add:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/regenerator-runtime@0.13.1/runtime.js"></script>

inside of the body in your index.html.
Now regeneratorRuntime should be defined once you run babel and now your async/await functions should be compiled successfully into ES2015

answered Mar 23, 2020 at 23:36

I get this error using gulp with rollup when I tried to use ES6 generators:

gulp.task('scripts', () => {
  return rollup({
    entry: './app/scripts/main.js',
    format: "iife",
    sourceMap: true,
    plugins: [babel({
      exclude: 'node_modules/**',
      "presets": [
        [
          "es2015-rollup"
        ]
      ],
      "plugins": [
        "external-helpers"
      ]
    }),
    includePaths({
      include: {},
      paths: ['./app/scripts'],
      external: [],
      extensions: ['.js']
    })]
  })

  .pipe(source('app.js'))
  .pipe(buffer())
  .pipe(sourcemaps.init({
    loadMaps: true
  }))
  .pipe(sourcemaps.write('.'))
  .pipe(gulp.dest('.tmp/scripts'))
  .pipe(reload({ stream: true }));
});

I may case the solution was to include babel-polyfill as bower component:

bower install babel-polyfill --save

and add it as dependency in index.html:

<script src="/bower_components/babel-polyfill/browser-polyfill.js"></script>

answered Nov 20, 2016 at 10:13

1 — Install babel-plugin-transform-async-to-module-method,
babel-polyfil, bluebird , babel-preset-es2015, babel-core :

npm install babel-plugin-transform-async-to-module-method babel-polyfill bluebird babel-preset-es2015 babel-core

2 — Add in your js babel polyfill:

import 'babel-polyfill';

3 — Add plugin in your .babelrc:

{
    "presets": ["es2015"],
    "plugins": [
      ["transform-async-to-module-method", {
        "module": "bluebird",
        "method": "coroutine"
      }]
    ]
}

Source : http://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/transform-async-to-module-method/

answered Jan 7, 2017 at 12:10

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I am using a React and Django project and got it to work by using regenerator-runtime. You should do this because @babel/polyfill will increase your app’s size more and is also deprecated. I also followed this tutorial’s episode 1 & 2 to create my project’s structure.

*package.json*

...
"devDependencies": {
    "regenerator-runtime": "^0.13.3",
    ...
}

.babelrc

{
   "presets": ["@babel/preset-env", "@babel/preset-react"],
   "plugins": ["transform-class-properties"]
}

index.js

...
import regeneratorRuntime from "regenerator-runtime";
import "regenerator-runtime/runtime";
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('app'));
...

answered Jul 22, 2019 at 18:59