There are different usages of babel tool. I put a sample package.json file. Notice that there are scripts block which has different usages.

You can reach github project from the following link.

https://github.com/kenanhancer/babel6-usage.git

You can reach Babel 7.x post from the following link.

Node.js Babel 7.x different usage transpiling to ES5 and Debugging

Creating Babel configuration file

.babelrc

{
  "presets": [
    "env"
  ],
  "plugins": [
    "transform-runtime"
  ],
  "sourceMaps": true,
  "retainLines": true
}

Running with Babel-node

//If you have installed babel-cli package globally, run below code.
babel-node --presets=env --plugins=transform-runtime src

or

//If you have .babelrc config file, run below code without specifying inline arguments.
babel-node src

or

//If you have installed babel-cli package locally, run below code.
./node_modules/.bin/babel-node --presets=env --plugins=transform-runtime src

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