Babel 6 regeneratorRuntime is not defined

Question

I\'m trying to use async, await from scratch on Babel 6, but I\'m getting regeneratorRuntime is not defined.

.babelrc file

{
    \"presets\": [ \"es2         


        

Answer 1

The targeted browsers I need to support already support async/await, but when writing mocha tests, without the proper setting I still got this error.

Most of the articles I googled are outdated, including the accepted answer and high voted answers here, i.e. you don't need polyfill, babel-regenerator-runtime, babel-plugin-transform-runtime. etc. if your target browser(s) already supports async/await (of course if not you need polyfill)

I don't want to use webpack either.

Tyler Long's answer is actually on the right track since he suggested babel-preset-env (but I omitted it first as he mentioned polifill at the beginning). I still got the ReferenceError: regeneratorRuntime is not defined at the first then I realized it was because I didn't set the target. After setting the target for node I fix the regeneratorRuntime error：

  "scripts": {
    //"test": "mocha --compilers js:babel-core/register"
    //https://github.com/mochajs/mocha/wiki/compilers-deprecation
    "test": "mocha --require babel-core/register"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "babel-core": "^6.26.3",
    "babel-preset-env": "^1.7.0",
    "mocha": "^5.2.0"
  },
  //better to set it .bablerc, I list it here for brevity and it works too.
  "babel": {
    "presets": [
      ["env",{
        "targets": {
          "node": "current"
           "chrome": 66,
           "firefox": 60,
        },
        "debug":true
      }]
    ]
  }