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Thanks everyone 🙌, already did it!
Anyone want to give Babel a star on github so we are actually the first repo in the topic 😛 github.com/topics/babel
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If your tool uses `babel-core` as a dependency, we'd ask that you add a peerDep on `"babel-core": "6.x | ^7.0.0-0"`, and switch to a peerDep on `@babel/core` in a major version bump
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Cool to hear the @v8js team also collaborates with @babeljs to make sure semantics are similar once proposals land in browsers (by @bmeurer ) #JSKongress
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PSA: If you need to make undocumented changes in any tooling or plugins to account for Babel 7 (beta or not) please ping someone or just make a reference (since don't have infinite time 😊) in github.com/babel/notes/issue… or here, would love to automate or fix if its unintentional
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Anyone using @babeljs with @nodejs want a no dep/config pkg that just does preset-env + polyfill + register + target node current? Should be simple to do..
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Thoughts on `@babel/cli` being able to output multiple builds for libraries (js/mjs/esnext?) github.com/babel/babel/issue… @dan_abramov
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If you're looking for some weekend reading, @jbhoosreddy just broke down how the @FirefoxDevTools Debugger uses @babeljs to make the 🦊 Debugger 💃
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OSS means a new contributor can highlight function bodies when they're copied. Also, @babeljs makes AST features in the @FirefoxDevTools 🕺🦊 Thanks Borian! github.com/devtools-html/deb…
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Another related one is people implementing their own logic/pkgs for config lookup: github.com/babel/babel/issue…
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Do you use a nested babel config? (or have even seen one)
9% yes (reply w/ use/link)
33% no
42% didn't know it existed
17% show results
325 votes • Final results
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.@babeljs notes: github.com/babel/notes/blob/… - $1k/mnth from @fbOpenSource - moved babylon/preset-env - v7 is 60% faster, will do post soon
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Testing @bmeurer's benchmark: > 5.21 runs/sec ±5% (babel-standalone v6.26.0) > 8.58 runs/sec ±8% (@babel/standalone v7.0.0-beta.31)
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Using Object.keys instead of for..in is a good performance advice by @lucasazzola. 👍 github.com/babel/babel/pull/…
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🔥 Cooking more @babeljs performance fixes on the flight to DUB for @NodeConfEU. cc @left_pad 🔗 github.com/babel/babel/pull/…
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Landed @c8hoang's PR to Babel to support JSX Fragments! You can test this out at babeljs.io/repl/build/5556/#…, and in the next v7 beta (soon)
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.@TschinderDaniel always doing amazing work: moved @babeljs back to github issues a while back and just moved preset-env/babylon repos! 🙏🎉🤗
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