diff --git a/.babelrc b/.babelrc
index d4ffb33d6..9597d17b6 100644
--- a/.babelrc
+++ b/.babelrc
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 {
-  "presets": ["flow"],
-  "plugins": [
-    ["transform-es2015-modules-commonjs", {
-      "allowTopLevelThis": true
-    }]
-  ]
+  "presets": ["es2015", "stage-0", "flow"],
+  "plugins": ["syntax-async-functions"]
 }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 604803272..1774efda4 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
     "babel-cli": "^6.24.1",
     "babel-eslint": "^7.2.3",
     "babel-jest": "^20.0.1",
+    "babel-plugin-syntax-async-functions": "^6.13.0",
     "babel-plugin-transform-es2015-modules-commonjs": "^6.24.1",
     "babel-preset-flow": "^6.23.0",
     "chdir": "0.0.0",
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@
     "mock-fs": "^4.2.0",
     "p-event": "^1.0.0",
     "prettier": "^1.0.0",
+    "regenerator-runtime": "^0.10.5",
     "standard-version": "^4.0.0",
     "tmp": "^0.0.33"
   },