I was just trying the new Babel's babel-preset-php (https://gitlab.com/kornelski/babel-preset-php#php7-to-es7-syntax-translator). I did everything in the README file, I installed the preset with npm i -S babel-preset-php. Then I created a .babelrc file with the following contents;
{
"presets": ["php"]
}
Installed the cli with npm i -g babel-cli. Then I created a simple PHP file that only contains a simple function:
<?php
function addCalculator($x, $y)
{
return $x + $y;
}
And tried to run the transpiler with babel number.php -o file.js. But I get an error in the execution of the script:
/home/claudio/Documents/Development/babel/node_modules/babel-preset-php/lib/plugins.js:6
Identifier(p) {
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ( (While processing preset: "/home/claudio/Documents/Development/babel/node_modules/babel-preset-php/index.js")
at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/claudio/Documents/Development/babel/node_modules/babel-preset-php/index.js:1:79)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
I'm not that experient with nodejs and npm, so any idea on what might be happening?