Getting to work your way around a new code base always poses its challenges, and Babel was no exception.
I’ve been working with Babel as part of the Google Summer of Code 2017 program, working to update Babel transforms and the Babylon parser to accommodate changes to specifications and implementing new features.
Here’s a few things I’ve learnt from my adventures so far.
We landed the parser support for the stage-2 decorators spec last week at Babylon — the parser for Babel. If you don’t know what a decorator is, the gist of it is that a decorator gives some concise syntax to affect the definition of a class or a class method which you decorate.
For the first time, Babel is participating in Summer of Code! Although we forgot to make an announcement post earlier, here's our progress update 😊
We are moving the migration guide to a docs page instead of a blog post!
Refer users to this document for those that create tools that depend on Babel (such as Babel plugins).
We are moving the migration guide to a docs page instead of a blog post!
In this release: multiple improvements to the react-constant-elements plugin by @STRML, some codegen optimizations, and lots of bug fixes! Thanks to @loganfsmyth for the release + reviews!
object-rest-spread works standalone and a few new plugin options APIs were added!
More flow updates, and lots of fixes!
Happy Birthday Babel 🎂 !