How gulp-babel is used
gulp-babel joined the catalog on its public numbers (159,054 downloads a week on npm and 1,306 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 5 public GitHub projects of our scan, 2 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use Gulp (100.0%), Chai (40.0%), Karma (40.0%).
gulp-babel popularity over time
Gid Score 28: downloads 47, use in agent projects 7, GitHub stars 16, downloads trend 40 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with gulp-babel
| Gulp | 100.0% of gulp-babel projects · 477.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| Chai | 40.0% of gulp-babel projects · 124.2× more than average |
| Karma | 40.0% of gulp-babel projects · 165.5× more than average |
| Mocha | 40.0% of gulp-babel projects · 95.5× more than average |
| Sinon.JS | 40.0% of gulp-babel projects · 155.2× more than average |
| Lodash | 40.0% of gulp-babel projects · 22.2× more than average |
| Moment.js | 40.0% of gulp-babel projects · 75.2× more than average |
| webpack | 40.0% of gulp-babel projects · 46.0× more than average |
How gulp-babel 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, Babel Preset Env.
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 gulp-babel
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install gulp-babel |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (4), Java / Kotlin (1) |
| Example projects | zkoss/zk, bschulte/phaser-electron-typescript |
Alternatives to gulp-babel
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Build tools and bundlers does the same job as gulp-babel: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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