Load babel only if available

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Hello, I’m using Hugo with Babel. At the bottom of my HTML file I included the following code:

{{ $script := resources.Get "js/main.js" | resources.Babel | resources.Minify }}
<script src="{{ $script.Permalink }}"></script>

Everything seems to work fine. The only issue is that if Babel is not installed, then Hugo doesn’t start the server. Is there a way to check if Babel is available and only load it in that case? otherwise just use the javascript file as it is?

Thank you!

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That’s not possible via Hugo. You can however create a shell script that checks if node_modules/babel exists and then runs hugo. On a bash shell something like:

if [ ! -d ./node_modules/babel ]; then
  echo "babel is needed"
  exit 1
fi
hugo --server
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