Error: Couldn't find preset

Am on babelify version 7.1, and browserify version 12.0.1.

I’m using the CLI to create a build file, and am getting an error. As far as I can tell, I’m doing everything the vanilla, correct way. If I take out presets option, I get unexepcted token errors.

Here’s the command I’m running:

browserify -e src/index.js -t [ babelify --presets es2015 ] -o dist/mandolin.js -s mandolin

And here’s the error and stack:

Error: Couldn't find preset while parsing file: <root_dir>/src/index.js
    at OptionManager.mergePresets (<root_dir>/node_modules/babelify/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:309:17)
    at OptionManager.mergeOptions (<root_dir>/node_modules/babelify/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:269:12)
    at OptionManager.init (<root_dir>/node_modules/babelify/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:395:10)
    at File.initOptions (<root_dir>/node_modules/babelify/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/index.js:191:75)
    at new File (<root_dir>/node_modules/babelify/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/index.js:122:22)
    at Pipeline.transform (<root_dir>/node_modules/babelify/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/pipeline.js:42:16)
    at Babelify._flush (<root_dir>/node_modules/babelify/index.js:28:24)
    at Babelify.<anonymous> (_stream_transform.js:130:12)
    at Babelify.g (events.js:180:16)
    at Babelify.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:117:20)

[ORESoftware]

$ npm install --save-dev babel-preset-stage-3

was solution for me

[andolf]

Googled around a bit and this solved my issue: Install babel-preset-es2015 via NPM and also babel-preset-react if you’re also running React.