Syntax error - Support for the experimental syntax 'decorators-legacy' isn't currently enabled

I'm trying to build JS react project with decorators. My .babelrc looks like this:

{
  "presets": [
    "@babel/preset-env",
    "@babel/preset-react",

  ],
  "plugins": [
    "@babel/plugin-transform-runtime",
    "@babel/plugin-transform-object-assign",
    [
      "@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators",
      {
        "legacy": true
      }
    ],
    ["@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties", { "loose": true }]
  ]
}

Adding @babel/plugin-proposal-decorators problems appears again.

I am using babel 7, webpack 4 and react 16.5

webpack.config.js:

const path = require("path");
const webpack = require("webpack");
const componentName = "reports-desktop";
const publicFolderRelativePath = "../../../../../../public/js";
const ignorePlugin = new webpack.IgnorePlugin(/^\.\/locale$/, /moment$/);

module.exports = {
    entry: './reports-desktop.js'
    ,
    output: {
        path: path.resolve(__dirname, publicFolderRelativePath),
        filename: `${componentName}.js`
    },
    module: {
        rules: [
            {
                test: /\.js$/,
                exclude: /node_modules/,
                use: {
                    loader: "babel-loader"
                }
            }
        ]
    },
    plugins: [
        ignorePlugin
    ]
};

package.json:

{
  "name": "captain",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "watch": "webpack -w --mode development --progress --color --display-error-details",
    "build": "webpack --mode production"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "devDependencies": {
    "@babel/core": "^7.0.0",
    "@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties": "^7.0.0",
    "@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators": "^7.0.0",
    "@babel/plugin-transform-object-assign": "^7.0.0",
    "@babel/plugin-transform-runtime": "^7.0.0",
    "@babel/preset-env": "^7.0.0",
    "@babel/preset-react": "^7.0.0",
    "@babel/preset-stage-1": "^7.0.0",
    "@babel/preset-stage-2": "^7.0.0",
    "babel-loader": "^8.0.2",
    "babel-plugin-transform-decorators": "^6.24.1",
    "react": "^16.5.0",
    "react-dom": "^16.5.0",
    "react-redux": "^5.0.7",
    "react-router-dom": "^4.3.1",
    "redux": "^4.0.0",
    "webpack": "^4.17.3",
    "webpack-cli": "^3.1.0"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "axios": "^0.18.0",
    "dropzone": "^5.5.1",
    "lodash": "^4.17.10",
    "moment": "^2.22.2",
    "prop-types": "^15.6.2",
    "react-addons-update": "^15.6.2",
    "react-bootstrap": "^0.32.4",
    "react-datetime": "^2.15.0",
    "react-dnd": "^5.0.0",
    "react-dnd-html5-backend": "^5.0.1",
    "react-media": "^1.8.0",
    "react-tooltip": "^3.8.1"
  }
}

Am I maybe using @babel/plugin-proposal-decorators wrong? As it says in documentation this should fix my problem, but it still appears.

I had the same problem, but I was able to get it working by running npm install --save-dev @babel/plugin-proposal-decorators and adding ["@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators", { "legacy": true }] to the plugins section in my .babelrc.

The plugins section of .babelrc, for me, now looks like this:

"plugins": [
  ["@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators", { "legacy": true }]
]

First, execute the command:

npm install customize-cra react-app-rewired @babel/plugin-proposal-decorators --save

Create a new file config-overrides.js at project root and then execute the following:

const { override, addDecoratorsLegacy } = require('customize-cra');
module.exports = override(
 addDecoratorsLegacy()
 );

Also, edit your package.jsonfile ：

"scripts": {
 "start": "react-app-rewired start",
 "build": "react-app-rewired build",
 "test": "react-app-rewired test",
 "eject": "react-app-rewired eject"
  },

then restart.

Taken from mobxjs. If you're still having issues refer to this. It helped me.

Example config for babel 7, in decorators legacy mode:

//.babelrc

{
    "presets": ["@babel/preset-env"],
    "plugins": [
        ["@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators", { "legacy": true }],
        ["@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties", { "loose": true }]
    ]
}

Please note that plugin ordering is important, and plugin-proposal-decorators should be the first plugin in your plugin list

"devDependencies": {
    "@babel/core": "^7.1.0",
    "@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties": "^7.1.0",
    "@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators": "^7.1.0",
    "@babel/preset-env": "^7.1.0"
}

Non-legacy mode decorators (stage 2) is work in progress, see #1732

Edit: updated config to show the non-beta configuration for babel 7

I fixed this with yarn add @babel/plugin-proposal-decorators

Then I added the following to babel.config.js in the plugins section:

  [
    require('@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators').default,
    {
      legacy: true
    }
  ],

Finally I needed to restart my webpack dev server.

---

I haven't tested this but like @christopher bradshaw answers says and according to the babel website if you are using .babelrc for configuration then add the following to the "plugins" section:

  ["@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators", { "legacy": true }]

If you face this error while using ReactJS with MobX, don't enable decorator syntax, but leverage the MobX's built-in decorate utility to apply decorators to your classes / objects.

Don't:

import { observable, computed, action } from "mobx";

class Timer {
  @observable start = Date.now();
  @observable current = Date.now();

  @computed
  get elapsedTime() {
    return this.current - this.start + "milliseconds";
  }

  @action
  tick() {
    this.current = Date.now();
  }
}

Do:

import { observable, computed, action, decorate } from "mobx";

class Timer {
  start = Date.now();
  current = Date.now();

  get elapsedTime() {
    return this.current - this.start + "milliseconds";
  }

  tick() {
    this.current = Date.now();
  }
}
decorate(Timer, {
  start: observable,
  current: observable,
  elapsedTime: computed,
  tick: action
});

Unfortunately none of the mentioned solutions worked for me. Because they need you to run npm run eject first and ... I don't want to do that. To change and override the webpack's configs at runtime, there's a package called react-app-rewired and this is how it should be used:

First install the required dependencies:

npm i --save-dev customize-cra react-app-rewired

Then add a new file called config-overrides.js to the root folder of the project with this content to enable legacy decorators babel plugin:

const {
  override,
  addDecoratorsLegacy,
  disableEsLint
} = require("customize-cra");

module.exports = override(
  // enable legacy decorators babel plugin
  addDecoratorsLegacy(),

  // disable eslint in webpack
  disableEsLint()
);

Finally change the package.json file to use react-app-rewired:

  "scripts": {
    "start": "react-app-rewired start",
    "build": "react-app-rewired build",
    "test": "react-app-rewired test",
    "eject": "react-app-rewired eject"
  },

Now run the npm start as usual and enjoy it!

As of 2021, with Create React App 4.0, only the following steps are required.

1. Make sure you do not eject.

2. npm i --save-dev customize-cra react-app-rewired

3. Add config-overrides.js with:

const { addDecoratorsLegacy, override } = require('customize-cra')

module.exports = override(addDecoratorsLegacy())

4. Add babel.config.js with:

module.exports = {
  plugins: [['@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators', { legacy: true }]],
}

5. Open package.json / scripts section and search-replace react-scripts -> react-app-rewired.

"scripts": {
  "start": "react-app-rewired start",
  "build": "react-app-rewired build",
  "test": "react-app-rewired test",
}

After this, both start, build, and test commands will work with the codebase.

1. Install decorator in package.json

"@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators": "^7.3.0",
"@babel/preset-flow": "^7.0.0"

2. update babe.config.js with this

module.exports = {
  "presets": [
    "module:metro-react-native-babel-preset",
    "@babel/preset-flow"
  ],
  "plugins": [
    ["@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators", { "legacy" : true }],
    ["@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties", { "loose" : true }],
  ]
}

package.json

"@babel/core": "^7.2.2",
"@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties": "^7.1.0",
"@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators": "^7.1.0",
"@babel/preset-env": "^7.2.3",
"@babel/preset-react": "^7.0.0",
"@babel/register": "^7.0.0",
"babel-loader": "^8.0.5"

webpack.config.js

presets: ["@babel/preset-env", "@babel/preset-react"]

.babelrc

{
  "presets": [
    "@babel/preset-env",
    "@babel/preset-react"
  ],
  "plugins":  [
    ["@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators", { "legacy": true }],
    ["@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties", { "loose": true }]
  ]
}

To use Mobx with Babel in 2020...

1

npm i babel-preset-mobx

2

module.exports = {
  presets: ['other-presets', 'mobx'],
};

So, just install the mobx preset and add it to your babel configuration file inside the presets array. For example in a babel.config.js etc.

I tried to install babel-plugin-transform-inline-environment-variables and it worked.

npm install babel-plugin-transform-inline-environment-variables

Renamed .babelrc to babel.config.json and it worked!!!

As of 2021,if you've already “run Eject”,to edit the file called "babelTransform" under the path "/config/jest/BabelTransform",like this:

...
module.exports = babelJest.createTransformer({
  presets: [
    [
      require.resolve('babel-preset-react-app'),
      {
        runtime: hasJsxRuntime ? 'automatic' : 'classic',
      },
    ],
  ],
  "plugins": [
    [
      "@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators",
      {
        "legacy": true,
      }
    ]
  ],
  babelrc: false,
  configFile: false,
});
...

and it worked.