Chapter 1: A Beginner’s Guide to Babel
by James Kolce
This article introduces Babel, a JavaScript compiler that allows developers to use next-generation JavaScript today.
It can be frustrating to write JavaScript when building web applications. We have to think about the features available in the browsers we’re targeting and what happens when a feature isn’t implemented. Some people would recommend simply not using it, which is a painful experience most of the time if we’re building something complicated.
Thankfully, some tools allow us to stop worrying about what’s supported and just write the best code we can. They’re called transpilers. A transpiler is a tool that takes source code as input and produces new source code as output, with a different ...
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