Babel Preset Env
Babel preset that automatically determines browser compatibility targets for transpilation.
Build tools and bundlers npm MIT
How Babel Preset Env is used
Babel Preset Env is a dependency in 1 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 22 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is esbuild (290 projects). Projects that use it most often also use webpack (77.3%), Babel Loader (68.2%), webpack CLI (63.6%).
Babel Preset Env popularity over time
Gid Score 42: downloads 56, use in agent projects 29, GitHub stars 32, downloads trend 48 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Babel Preset Env
| webpack | 77.3% of Babel Preset Env projects · 88.8× more than average |
|---|---|
| Babel Loader | 68.2% of Babel Preset Env projects · 222.8× more than average |
| webpack CLI | 63.6% of Babel Preset Env projects · 80.6× more than average |
| Phaser | 50.0% of Babel Preset Env projects · 258.7× more than average |
| webpack-dev-server | 45.5% of Babel Preset Env projects · 188.1× more than average |
| html-webpack-plugin | 45.5% of Babel Preset Env projects · 256.5× more than average |
| Copy Webpack Plugin | 36.4% of Babel Preset Env projects · 141.1× more than average |
| css-loader | 36.4% of Babel Preset Env projects · 125.4× more than average |
From all 22 projects in our scan that use Babel Preset Env, including the dependency samples.
How Babel Preset Env is funded
Open Collective: Babel
| Received, last 12 months | $224,369 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $254,312 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $189,615 |
| Raised since the start | $1,657,791 · $1,468,176 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $19,035 · $11,762 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +49% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 83 |
Top company backers all time, 244 companies in total
| Handshake | $100,000 since Aug 2018 |
|---|---|
| trivago | $48,000 since Aug 2018 |
| The Zebra | $48,000 since May 2021 |
| Codecademy | $35,500 since Dec 2020 |
| Elastic | $33,600 since Nov 2019 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Apr 2017. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 3 more tools in our catalog: Babel (JavaScript), Babel Loader, gulp-babel.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @babel | 41 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay.
Ways to fund Babel Preset Env
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install babel-preset-env |
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| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (22) |
| Example projects | remix-project-org/remix-project, ricardovaltierra/rpg-game, mcastorena0316/Javascript-Capstone, cometsheepboy/solana-example-token, ermin-cahtarevic/RPG-game |
Alternatives to Babel Preset Env
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Babel Preset Env are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| esbuild npm Extremely fast JavaScript and CSS bundler and minifier written in Go. |
82 | 290 (6.0%) | 184M | 40.1K | MIT |
| SWC npm Super-fast Rust-based JavaScript compiler and bundler alternative to Babel. |
74 | 107 (2.2%) | 25.6M | 34.2K | Apache-2.0 |
| webpack npm Module bundler that packages JavaScript, assets and dependencies for browser deployment. |
79 | 54 (1.1%) | 31.4M | 66K | MIT |
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