# Disable Babel for Kibana Plugin (Development) **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [April 15, 2019, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-babel-for-kibana-plugin-development/176891 "2019-04-15T11:24:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![andrei.costache](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@andrei.costache](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrei.costache)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-babel-for-kibana-plugin-development/176891/1 "2019-04-15T11:24:10Z")
Hi, I am developing a JavaScript (React) plugin for Kibana, version 6.1.3. And I would like to disable Babel, for my plugin, while developing (I do not want my code transpiled). I tried [this older suggestion](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46384640/how-to-disable-babel-in-kibana-for-plugin-development), but it does not work. I am starting (the development) Kibana using 'sh ./bin/kibana --dev --no-base-path --plugin-path /path/to/plugin'. Is there any other way to prevent the transpiling process in such a scenario (or on an "outside" plugin directory)? Thank you in advance, Andrei. ---
**Author:** ![monfera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/monfera/32/26467_2.png) [@monfera](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/monfera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-babel-for-kibana-plugin-development/176891/2 "2019-04-15T13:17:28Z")
Hi Andrei, what is it that you actually put in the config file? ---
**Author:** ![andrei.costache](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@andrei.costache](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrei.costache)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-babel-for-kibana-plugin-development/176891/3 "2019-04-15T13:36:46Z")
Hi Robert, I modified the src attribute in the babel.js config task, with changes marked below (not all at once) `src: [` `'build/kibana/**/*.js`', `'! **/public/**',` `'! **/node_modules/**',` `'! **/bower_components/**',` `'! **/ __tests__ /**',` `'! **my_plugin**',` // change#1 `'! **/my_plugin/**'` // change#2 `]` I don't know how the resources outside the kibana folder are read. And I admit I am not experienced with grunt/babel (or globbing), so I assume this could be a beginner's mistake. The location of my plugin, relative to the Kibana dev workspace, is as follows: `/some/path/kibana` `/some/path/kibana_plugins_dir/my_plugin` Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![monfera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/monfera/32/26467_2.png) [@monfera](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/monfera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-babel-for-kibana-plugin-development/176891/4 "2019-04-15T14:51:20Z")
Could you try variations around moving up into the parent directory of the project eg. `'!../kibana_plugins_dir/**'`? ---
**Author:** ![andrei.costache](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@andrei.costache](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrei.costache)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-babel-for-kibana-plugin-development/176891/5 "2019-04-23T06:28:50Z")
I have tried several variations, to no result yet. Is there any other place where such settings can be configured (for instance where the babel task is run, so that I can debug around there maybe)? Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-babel-for-kibana-plugin-development/176891/6 "2019-05-21T06:28:59Z")
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