002 jsAir - Babel, the JavaScript Compiler with Henry Zhu, Amjad Masad, Logan Smyth, and Sebastian McKenzie
Babel, the JavaScript Compiler with Henry Zhu, Amjad Masad, Logan Smyth, and Sebastian McKenzieDescription:
Tons of people use Babel. With the release of Babel 6, it is now a language platform as well as a transpiler. Join us as we talk about the ecosystem of Babel plugins, ASTs, and all of the neat stuff that you can do with this amazing tool with some of the core contributors to the project.
Show sponsors:- Egghead.io - Bite-sized web development video training
- Frontend Masters - Expert front-end training
- {Track:js} - JavaScript Error Monitoring
- Links: JSCS and Sebastian’s JSConf Talk
- Picks: AST Explorer and babel-eslint
- Links: Meteor Fibers
- Tips: Use interface-like design and dependency injection for testing and Promises / async functions
- Picks: Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Emacs, and repl.it
- Tips: Join us on the Babel Slack
- Picks: Matt Mullenweg to WordPress Community: “Learn JavaScript, Deeply”. Here are some resources for doing that. and Reddit Thread
- Links: Why is Babel a Monorepo? and The Babel Plugin Handbook
- Tips: Create dev tools for your work project. and Look into babel loose mode
- Picks: Misunderstanding ES6 Modules, Upgrading Babel, tears, and a solution, Clearing up the Babel 6 Ecosystem, and Google Music
- Tips: Take some time to reflect on the past year/2015, Jessica Paoli recently published hers.
- Picks: Advent of code