[1776] Babel transform plugin not working within NuxtJS

Hello, I'm trying to use the newly approved to Stage-1 pipeline operator in a project.

https://github.com/SuperPaintman/babel-plugin-transform-pipeline

https://github.com/babel/proposals/issues/29

I have the following

babel: {  
      "presets": [
        "es2015",
        "stage-2"
      ],
      "plugins": [
        "espower",
        "transform-runtime",
        "transform-pipeline"
      ]
    }

in nuxt.config.js, .babelrc (without the "babel" key), and package.json. Yet I'm still getting "Syntax Error: Unexpected Token"

Any advise on how to get this working with Nuxt would be appreciated. I've tried restarting the server.