Tech Talk: Typescript with Chris Krycho
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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Babel Is a Translation Layer From JavaScript to JavaScript
Babel is some sort of translation layer from magic new JavaScript to whatever I support. In an Explorer 11 targets the ECMAScript 5 version of JavaScript and it doesn't have any features later than that. Many new features like this generators, async awaits syntax, et cetera, can all be carefully compiled back to ES5. Babel will run as part of a build pipeline on your website or app.
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