Disable caniuse-lite outdated warning for Node project

Hello - I am using babel to compile TypeScript code and I’m not even targeting browsers, but I’m still getting a warning that caniuse-lite is outdated.

Is there some way that I can disable this warning?

[Jimbly]

I was also running into this both when targeting Node or when targeting specific old client targets (e.g. IE 10). Glancing at the code, I worked around this by adding process.env.BROWSERSLIST_IGNORE_OLD_DATA = 1; before calling into Babel and it suppresses the error. Hope this helps anyone else arriving here.

[Domiii]

I can confirm that the warning pops up if targets is not set and even if @babel/preset-env are not added!

Setting your babel config’s targets to node fixes the issue, e.g.:

babelCfg = {
  targets: {
    node: 16
  },
  // other babel options here
}

Note that the node target requires a concete semver.

The Problem

This finding implies that Babel now (somehow?) “targets” the browser by default, and (to the best of my knowledge) has not properly documented this behavior. I am not even sure what kind of targeting it does? Maybe it is caused by some plugins?

At the very least, this is a documentation bug: targets are only documented for @babel/preset-env, but are also applied if preset-env is not added. That needs to be fixed, and target behavior without preset-env should be properly explained.