Happy Birthday Babel 🎂 !

We released Babili as beta (0.0.1) a few days ago under an MIT license!

Try it out in the Babel REPL and report any bugs or potential optimizations we can make! There's also a #minify slack room!

A new es2017, latest preset, and lots of fixes in this release.

Babel Doctor is heavily inspired ripped from the awesome Yeoman Doctor by Sindre Sorhus.

babel-doctor has been removed as of v6.18.0 of babel-cli. If anyone needs it we will bring it back as a standalone npm module called babel-doctor.

Babel 6 is fresh off the press and we’re still getting a lot sorted out. In the past two days we've seen more activity on GitHub and Slack than ever before. Everyone who has been helping out has been doing a great job.

However, the documentation is still lacking at this point, I’m currently going through and creating an entirely new “Getting Started” section of the site.

NOTE: Not all integrations have been updated yet. This is a very disruptive major so please bear with us as we smooth out the edges.

It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since the Babel project started, but there was a birthday cake, so it must be real!

While redesigning Instagram Web from the inside out this year, we enjoyed using a number of ES6+ features to write our React components. Allow me to highlight some of the ways that these new language features can change the way you write a React app, making it easier and more fun than ever.

Babel 5.4 was just released and with it comes support for a new experimental ES7 syntax proposed by Kevin Smith (@zenparsing) and implemented in Babel by Ingvar Stepanyan (@RReverser).

In the past few months Babel has been welcomed into several major communities such as Node, React, Ember, Backbone, Angular, Rails, and many others. We launched the Users page only a few weeks ago and it's really cool to see everyone that is using it. Companies like CloudFlare, Netflix, Mozilla, and Yahoo!. Projects like Ghost, Atom, Mapbox, and so many more.

We've seen tons of blog posts, talks, events, courses all about ES6+ using Babel, and official Babel tools have been downloaded nearly 2 million times.

Today we are making by far the largest release of Babel ever.

One of the things that surprises people quite often is that Babel supports JSX out of the box.