[symfony/webpack-encore-bundle] is the regenerator-runtime package still required?

[leonboot]

The package.json file of the symfony/webpack-encore-bundle contains the regenerator-runtime package. Our abandoned package checker picked up on this. For good reason it seems, as the GitHub repo is marked as archived and the last release was 2 years ago. What is the purpose of this package in the context of the webpack encore bundle? The package was added when I updated the recipe (from version 2.0 to 2.1 if I'm interpreting the symfony.lock correctly), it wasn't installed before (it must have been removed manually as it is present in the 2.0 version of the recipe), and my encore builds worked fine then.

[Kocal]

That's a good question, TBH, I’ve never really been sure what this package is for or when it’s used.

But in 2026, I don't think this package is useful anymore, I believe we can remove it from the recipe. But first, can you ensure that everything still works well in Webpack Encore if you remove all mentions of regenerator-runtime?

Thanks!

[stof]

This package is necessary when babel transpiles generators for older browsers.

I don't think the default browser target includes those nowadays. I think we could remove it.