Sebastian McKenzie is announcing that Babel with version number 5.5.6 is already available to download.
What is Babel ?
Babel is A toolkit for converting JavaScript code written in the EcmaScript 6 syntax to the classic EcmaScript 5 variant, perfect for supporting upcoming language features right now .
Babel was created to help developers avoid the problem from switching between two syntax variants of a programming language.After all the Python 2.x and 3.x mess, a library like Babel will help you easily convert code written in the more modern ES6 to the older ES5.As a side effect of this conversion, this also enables programmers to deploy applications written for a more modern JavaScript environment into today’s Web browsers.Babel lets them run modern code in an alternative ES5 form, also supporting source maps, a feature that can greatly help out when debugging your code.The library has been well planned and along with its release there are also lots of plugins for various build systems, Node.js CLI integration, and Ruby on Rails support.Support is also included for Webpack, Broccoli, Gulp, Grunt, Browserify, Duo, Brunch, Gobble, Make, Jest, Connect, Jade, Karma, Nodemon, and Mocha.Babel was previously known as 6to5.
This is changelog for Babel version 5.5.6 :
- Bug Fix:
- Don’t consider JSXAttribute names to be valid ReferencedIdentifiers.
You can read the complete changelog and also download this latest version on their homepage: babeljs.io