002 jsAir - Babel, the JavaScript Compiler with Henry Zhu, Amjad Masad, Logan Smyth, and Sebastian McKenzie
JavaScript Air
English - December 23, 2015 20:03 - 1 hour - 127 MB - ★★★★ - 18 ratingsTechnology javascript developer node front end framework programmer web internet programming development Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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, Picks, and Tips:Henry ZhuLinks: JSCS and Sebastian’s JSConf Talk
Picks: AST Explorer and babel-eslint
Amjad MasadLinks: 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
Logan SmythTips: Join us on the Babel Slack
Sebastian McKenziePicks: Sainsbury's Chocolate Flavoured British 1% Fat Milk
Dan AbramovPicks: Tree-shaking with webpack 2 and Babel 6
Kyle SimpsonPicks: Matt Mullenweg to WordPress Community: “Learn JavaScript, Deeply”. Here are some resources for doing that. and Reddit Thread
Kent C. DoddsLinks: 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
Pam SelleTips: Take some time to reflect on the past year/2015, Jessica Paoli recently published hers.
Picks: Advent of code
About JavaScript Air:JavaScriptAir is the live broadcast podcast all about JavaScript hosted by egghead.io instructor Kent C. Dodds. Please visit the JavaScript Air website (javascriptair.com) to see upcoming and past episodes. Also be sure to follow JavaScript Air on Twitter and Google+ to stay up to date with future episodes. Also, all episodes are on the YouTube channel as well.