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Babel is a toolchain that is mainly used to convert ECMAScript 2015+ code into a backwards compatible version of JavaScript in current and older browsers or environments.

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This guide will show you how to compile your JavaScript application code that uses ES2015+ syntax into code that works in current browsers. That will involve both transforming new syntax and polyfilling …

Using Babel How to use Babel with your tool of choice.

If you're using Babel in production, you should normally not use @babel/standalone. Instead, you should use a build system running on Node.js, such as Webpack, Rollup, or Parcel, to transpile your JS …

Babel comes with a built-in CLI which can be used to compile files from the command line. In addition, various entry point scripts live in the top-level package at @babel/cli/bin.

By default Babel tries to compile your code so that it matches the native behavior as closely as possible. However, this sometimes means generating more output code, or slower output code, just to support …

May 30, 2025 · A guiding principle for the breaking changes we've introduced is that updating to Babel 8 should be easy: most of them have been already introduced in Babel 7 behind an option, so that you …

Using Babel in a Futuristic Working Environment by Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene at js.la (2017) Watch video on YouTube Error 153 Video player configuration error Babel Sucks by James Kyle at Modern Web …