So @_developit and I are planning on chatting on the next @babeljs podcast ep about libraries/node_modules/modern js! Any questions or specific things you'd like us to cover? I wanted to go over the history of previous approaches to this as well
If you missed it earlier, I just finished a transcript of my chat (66 min) with @_developit on: investing in tooling with preset-modules, complexities of compilers, and lessons learned to take forward with preset-env.
Some fun gems in here!
podcast.babeljs.io/preset-en…
ALT Henry Zhu: Right! So like if say Babel outputted something that was a bit bigger, and you were able to fix that for everyone, then that’s a huge size win. I guess your goal is to reduce the code size for all websites.
Jason Miller: You know, if I had a personal mantra, it would be to make the web smaller.
What's Babel's mental model?
Here's my conversation with @_developit on the future of @babeljs (and preset-env) via the newly released preset-modules. (+ there's a video! I would like to do more than one ep per year)
Site: podcast.babeljs.io
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=Hw1qScL1…
Planning on recording a @babeljs podcast ep (finally, it's been like half a year) with @_developit tomorrow on compiling modern js with preset-modern! Any specific thoughts you want us to cover? Wrote up a simple outline on the probs in the space, current status, future ideas
Will be my first time in Tokyo, excited to speak and attend jsconf.jp later this week!
Flights/travel has been pretty tough for me (my back), not sure how others manage 🙂!