Practical
Babel

Brandon Konkle

DenverScript

July 28th, 2015

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What is
Babel?

Why

does it matter?

• Use ES'15 and ES'16 today!

• Provide real-world feedback of new features before standardization.

• Use Babel plugins to optimize your code and add new features.

How do
I use it
today?

• Use it with your favorite build tool.

• Don't immediately jump to compiling all your files. Focus on new files at first.

• Enable loose mode to work around perf issues.

Gulp

Webpack

Browserify

Links

https://babeljs.io/

http://codemix.com/blog/why-babel-matters

http://babeljs.io/docs/setup/

http://babeljs.io/docs/advanced/loose/

https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-babel

https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-loader

https://www.npmjs.com/package/babelify