Parcel 2 Missing Babel Runtime

[fab7jj]

Hello I went to install the twilio-chat yarn package and upon running parcel watch I got the below error

I had to install this babel runtime yarn package for it to work. First I tried this one but it still didn't work for some reason. To be honest I don't know what is the difference between the two versions it is a bit confusing.

Is this a bug of parcel or it is normal that you have to install that package as a separate dependency? I know people who installed the twilio-chat package while using create-react-app and hadn't this issue for example.

Thanks a lot.

[mischnic]

it is normal that you have to install that package as a separate dependency

No, this is an error on twilio's side.
They import babel-runtime in their package (see https://unpkg.com/browse/[email protected]/browser/client.js line 3) but didn't declare it as a dependency in their package.json: https://unpkg.com/browse/[email protected]/package.json

I know people who installed the twilio-chat package while using create-react-app and hadn't this issue for example.

This happened because some other package coincidentally had babel-runtime as a dependency and so it was already available. But this is prone to break in the future

To be honest I don't know what is the difference between the two versions it is a bit confusing.

When babel-runtime version 7 was released, they changed the package name to @babel/runtime. But you have no choice here (as you already found out).

[fab7jj]

Thanks mate, really appreciate you taking your time and explaining this to me. Great work!