# babel — Deprecated npm packages and their maintainer-named replacement

For babel, latest published version is 6.23.0; maintainer's deprecation message is In 6.x, the babel package has been deprecated in favor of babel-cli. Check https://opencollective.com/babel to support the Babel maintainers; named replacement is babel-cli, recorded from its source on 2026-08-25; source re-checked 2026-09-14.

- **Package:** babel _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Latest published version:** 6.23.0 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Maintainer's deprecation message:** In 6.x, the babel package has been deprecated in favor of babel-cli. Check https://opencollective.com/babel to support the Babel maintainers _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Named replacement:** babel-cli _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> "deprecated":"In 6.x, the babel package has been deprecated in favor of babel-cli. Check https://opencollective.com/babel to support the Babel maintainers"

## Source

- https://registry.npmjs.org/babel

Last verified: 2026-09-14. Review by: 2027-02-21.
Part of [Deprecated npm packages and their maintainer-named replacement](https://referencesource.org/npm-deprecated-package-recommended-replacement/).