babel config of a dependency breaks build

[jasonkuhrt]

I have a dependency that includes this Babel configuration in package.json:

"babel": {
    "presets": [
      "es2015",
      "react"
    ]
  }

I have found that when this dependency is installed I get the following error (sometimes at runtime or sometimes at build):

If I remove the babel settings aforementioned this error does not occur. I think the opaque error message is due to #5191.

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[satya164]

Related #4062 #5221

[jasonkuhrt]

Thanks.