babel-preset-env is a new preset that lets you specify an environment and automatically enables the necessary plugins. The problem # At the moment, several presets let you determine what features Babel should support: babel-preset-es2015, babel-preset-es2016, etc.: incrementally support various versions of ECMAScript. es2015 transpiles what’s new in ES6 to ES5, es2016 transpiles what’s new in ES2