babel 6 async / await: Unexpected token

Question

Im having trouble getting async / await transforms working. What am I missing?

My .babelrc:

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

Answer 1

According to this post you need to have babel-polyfill

Babel 6 regeneratorRuntime is not defined with async/await

Hopefully it'll help you :)

EDIT:

It doesn't have to be babel-polyfill but it's the only one I used.

As Gothdo said: the await keyword has to be in a function scope. Moreover, this function definition has to have the async keyword.

This means that you can not have the await keyword on the top-level scope.