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+module.exports = {
+  presets: [
+    ['@vue/cli-plugin-babel/preset', {
+      useBuiltIns: false,
+      // NOTE: we are disabling generator and async/await use due to
+      // https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli/blob/aad72cfa7880a0e327be06b3b9c3ac3d3b3c9abc/packages/%40vue/babel-preset-app/index.js#L250
+      // which hardcodes the use of an inlined regenerator runtime polyfill. Using it means we have to include
+      // 6kb extra minified code in every plugin's UMD file. We could use a shared, global runtime for regenerator,
+      // but @vue/babel-preset-app won't allow us to only set the linked `regenerator` property to false while
+      // keeping the rest of the settings the same.
+      // TODO: create an issue in vue for this ^? Or maybe the final gzipped asset's size will not be affected?
+      exclude: [
+        'transform-async-to-generator',
+        'transform-regenerator',
+        'proposal-async-generator-functions',
+      ]
+    }],
+  ],
+};