With Babel 5.x it was possible to use the @decorator syntax by just enabling the state-0 language features.

Here is a simple class decorator:

@annotation
class Foo {}

function annotation(target) {
  // Add a property on target
  target.annotated = true;
}

Adding the babel-preset-stage-0 module and configuring Babel accordingly in the .babelrc to include "stage-0" before "es2015" makes Babel consume the source code without complaining. But that’s all, nothing happens.

After digging around I finally discovered that I had to include a specific plugin for this to work.

Install module babel-plugin-transform-decorators and change the .babelrc configuration to this:

{
  "presets": ["stage-0", "es2015", "react"],
  "plugins": ["transform-decorators"]
}

And, tada…

SyntaxError: foo.js: Decorators are not supported yet in 6.x pending proposal update.

For now, Babel 6.x has removed support for decorators.