21 engineers on Hacker News describe using Babel first-hand: 5 endorse it, 2 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“I tried for like an hour and I could not figure out how to do it, without setting up like a whole environment/pipeline for it.”
regret · personal · jeshin · 2022-07-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use babel to strip the types out completely on compilation.”
endorse · production · bavell · 2022-06-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've either regretted it (babel/webpack/whatnot has screwed something up in prod that I didn't catch in dev)”
regret · production · zbentley · 2019-01-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it works pretty well (and surprisingly fast) for quick experiments.”
endorse · personal · nicoburns · 2018-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Bit of speed up was nice. Lo, by now we've replaced Babel entirely with Typescript”
mixed · production · __s · 2018-08-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using babel to great effect on client-side apps which have to be transpiled/bundled anyway”
endorse · production · wolfgang42 · 2016-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“these modern javascript tools have solved a lot of problems we had.”
endorse · production · mehwoot · 2016-10-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Babel to experience the ES6/7 world and it's a great experience to use async/await among else.”
mixed · personal · kbody · 2015-07-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using babel instead of the internal transpiler and yes you can use all the ES6 syntax out of the box.”
endorse · personal · iamflimflam1 · 2015-07-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we wind up uploading babel and a few other packages to the deploy environment”
neutral · production · retrocryptid · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Enable BabelJS's debug mode and remove unnecessary plugins”
neutral · production · eliseumds · 2019-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“just the right features to let me kill Babel, simplify build docs”
neutral · production · natural219 · 2018-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“have been using it with babel since before the name change.”
neutral · personal · tracker1 · 2018-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use ES6 and compile it down via Babel.”
neutral · production · keremkazan · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“using mostly the same tooling npm, babel (though with webpack on front end now)”
neutral · production · tracker1 · 2016-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using async/await for about 6-8 months now via babeljs, and tbh trying to explain it to people”
neutral · personal · 0.6 yr · tracker1 · 2015-08-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using babel + browserify and leaning on whatever shims it provides”
neutral · production · tracker1 · 2015-08-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Babel I have to use because all browsers struggle with ES2015 to an extent.”
neutral · personal · thomasfoster96 · 2015-07-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using async/await for a while with babel/6to5, and love it”
neutral · personal · tracker1 · 2015-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using babeljs and traceur before that for transpiling combined with browserify.”
neutral · production · tracker1 · 2015-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“though we use Babel now internally, we compile React itself to ES5 before putting it on npm”
neutral · production · spicyj · 2015-07-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?