Notes

What the Fork is Babel?

Illustrated notes on how Babel works

Planted

If you’ve build anything on the modern web, you’ve used Babel . Nothing works without it. When I first started learning web development I didn’t pay much attention to it. But once I got deeper into learning JSX and React (more on that in my React is a Potato talk) and I needed a to understand what was up with the all the .babelrc files in my projects.

Here’s my quick one-shot summary of it:

Babel is a translator that turns different varieties of JS into ES5 - a commonly shared version

A good follow-up read is How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different?

5 Backlinks

How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different?

Illustrated notes on how compilers and transpilers are different

A Fresh Serving of JavaScript ES2019

Illustrated notes on the new language changes in JavaScript ES2019

A Chat with Henry Zhu on OSS & Gift Economies

Notes from my podcast episode Open Source and Gift Economies on Maintainers Anonymous

What the Fork is the React Virtual DOM

Illustrated notes on how the React virtual DOM works

What the Fork is React Suspense?

Illustrated notes on how React suspense works