Today we're announcing the The Babel Podcast!
You probably use Babel, directly or as a dependency. But do you ever wonder who works on it? Henry Zhu chats with other members of the team, TC39, and the JS community about the future of JavaScript and how it's all maintained. Please join us in babbling about Babel (and everything else)!
Today we are releasing Babel 7.4.0!
This release includes support for TypeScript 3.4, the proposal for partial application in function calls, and static private methods.
We added support for meaningful parenthesized expressions in @babel/parser, and also made it more spec compliant than ever!
Last but not least, both @babel/preset-env and @babel/transform-runtime now support core-js@3, and @babel/template has some sweet new syntax!
You can read the whole changelog on GitHub.
After over 80 commits, the latest Babel minor release is here!
This release includes support for named capturing groups in regular expressions, private instance accessors, the smart pipeline operator and a bunch of improvements to TypeScript parsing. You can read the whole changelog on GitHub.
We just released a new minor version of Babel!
This release includes support for private instance methods and a bunch of bug fixes regarding Flow and TypeScript types. You can read the whole changelog on GitHub.
There's already another release! 7.1.0 includes support for Stage 2 Decorators and adds support for Stage 3 Private Static Fields as well as some various bug fixes.
Babel 7.1.0 finally supports the new decorators proposal: you can try it out by using the @babel/plugin-proposal-decorators plugin 🎉.
After almost 2 years, 4k commits, over 50 pre-releases, and a lot of help we are excited to announce the release of Babel 7. It's been almost 3 years since the release of Babel 6! There's a lot of moving parts so please bear with us in the first weeks of release. Babel 7 is a huge release: we've made it faster, created an upgrade tool, JS configs, config "overrides", more options for size/minification, JSX Fragments, TypeScript, new proposals, and more!
Moving forward with v7, we've decided it's best to stop publishing the Stage presets in Babel (e.g. @babel/preset-stage-0).
We didn't make this decision lightly and wanted to show the context behind the interplay between TC39, Babel, and the community.
With the release of babel@7.0.0-beta52, we introduced a new required configuration flag to @babel/plugin-proposal-pipeline-operator, a breaking change for the pipeline operator. To clear up any confusion, let's take a look at the pipeline proposal and why we needed to introduce this configuration option.
We are happy to announce a new partnership with trivago, the hotel search website.