Add plugin-transform-modules-commonjs to @babel/register

[ulrichb]

As Node.js nowadays supports every ES 6+ feature necessary for writing idiomatic Gulp4 scripts except ES 6 module imports/exports, it would be cool to automatically add the babel-plugin-transform-modules-commonjs plugin by using the @babel/register options.

This would allow to support Gulp4 style files "out of the box" (okay you still need to install the Babel packages).

But the major benefit would be that you wouldn't need a .babelrc file or clutter your package.json and thus avoid to potentially interfere with other Babel usages in a project.

[phated]

We aren't going to do this. We already support esm, so if you only need modules, just use that instead of bloated babel

[ulrichb]

Oh, I din't know of the .esm.js option. (And actually had to update interpret because of the outdated dependency reference in gulp).

Works great and much faster than Babel.

Maybe it's worth mentioning this on https://gulpjs.com/docs/en/getting-started/javascript-and-gulpfiles.

[phated]

Glad it's faster for you (it is also to-spec instead of an interop layer)

As for docs, we have an issue open at gulpjs/gulp#2278

[ulrichb]

Okay. Thanks!