Gulp babel not transpiling to es5

I installed gulp babel (and dependencies) and when running gulp, same es6 code is being output in dist. I tried adding .babelrc to specify preset as well as specifying preset in gulp.

Is there anything I am missing?

gulpfile

var gulp         = require('gulp');
var babel        = require('gulp-babel');

gulp.task( 'customJS', function() {
    gulp.src( [ jsCustomSRC ] )
        .pipe( concat( jsCustomFile + '.js' ) )
        .pipe(babel({
            presets: ['@babel/env']
        }))
        .pipe( gulp.dest( jsDestination ) )
});

.babelrc

{
  "presets": ["@babel/env"]
}

package.json

  "devDependencies": {
    "@babel/core": "^7.1.5",
    "@babel/preset-env": "^7.1.5",
    "gulp": "^4.0.0",
    "gulp-babel": "^8.0.0",
    "gulp-concat": "^2.5.2"
  }

[ArnoMandersTfe]

I also had this probleem but wrapping it in a second array will fix it,

.pipe($.babel({
    presets: [['@babel/preset-env']]
}))

[Extarys]

I have the same issue I got no files being created nor do I get any error by the task where babel runs.

For completeness I’ve include my code below.

packages.js

  "@babel/cli": "^7.1.5",
    "@babel/core": "^7.1.6",
    "@babel/preset-env": "^7.1.6",
    "@babel/preset-stage-1": "^7.0.0", // Deprecated?
    "@babel/traverse": "^7.1.4",
    "gulp": "^3.9.1",
    "gulp-babel": "^8.0.0",
    "gulp-nodemon": "^2.4.1",
    "gulp-sass": "^4.0.2",
    "nodemon": "^1.11.0",

Task:

var DEST = 'build/'

gulp.task('build', () => {
  return gulp
    .src(['./src/**/*.js'])
    .pipe(
      babel({
        presets: ['@babel/preset-env']
      })
    )
    .pipe(gulp.dest(DEST))
})