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  • 7.20.0 Released: Deno target and TypeScript 4.9
  • 7.19.0 Released: Stage 3 decorators and more RegExp features!
  • 7.18.0 Released: Destructuring private elements and TypeScript 4.7
  • 7.17.0 Released: RegExp 'v' mode and ... 🥁 decorators!
  • 7.16.0 Released: ESLint 8 and TypeScript 4.5
  • 7.15.0 Released: Hack-style pipelines, TypeScript const enums and Rhino target support
  • Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
  • 7.14.0 Released: New class features enabled by default, TypeScript 4.3, and better CommonJS interop
  • 7.13.0 Released: Records and Tuples, granular compiler assumptions, and top-level targets
  • 7.12.0 Released: TypeScript 4.1, strings as import/export names, and class static blocks
  • 7.11.0 Released: ECMAScript 2021 support in preset-env, TypeScript 4.0 support, printing config and the future of `babel-eslint`
  • The State of babel-eslint
  • 7.10.0 Released: Class Fields in preset-env, '#private in' checks and better React tree-shaking
  • 7.9.0 Released: Smaller preset-env output, Typescript 3.8 support and a new JSX transform
  • 7.8.0 Released: ECMAScript 2020, .mjs configuration files and @babel/cli improvements
  • Babel's Funding Plans
  • 7.7.0 Released: Error recovery and TypeScript 3.7
  • 7.6.0 Released: Private static accessors and V8 intrinsic syntax
  • 7.5.0 Released: dynamic import and F# pipelines
  • The Babel Podcast
  • 7.4.0 Released: core-js 3, static private methods and partial application
  • 7.3.0 Released: Named capturing groups, private instance accessors and smart pipelines
  • 7.2.0 Released: Private Instance Methods
  • TC39 Standards Track Decorators in Babel
  • 7.1.0 Released: Decorators, Private Static Fields
  • Babel 7 Released
  • Removing Babel's Stage Presets
  • What's Happening With the Pipeline (|>) Proposal?
  • Announcing Babel's New Partnership with trivago!
  • On Consuming (and Publishing) ES2015+ Packages
  • Nearing the 7.0 Release
  • Babel Turns Three
  • Planning for 7.0
  • Zero-config code transformation with babel-plugin-macros
  • Contributing to Babel: Three Lessons to Remember
  • Personal Experiences at Babel #1 — A PR with Unusually High Number of Reviews
  • Babel and Summer of Code 2017
  • Upgrade to Babel 7 (moved)
  • Upgrade to Babel 7 for Tool Authors (WIP)
  • 6.23.0 Released
  • The State of Babel
  • 6.19.0 Released
  • 6.18.0 Released
  • 6.16.0 Released
  • Babili (babel-minify)
  • 6.14.0 Released
  • Babel Doctor
  • Setting up Babel 6
  • 6.0.0 Released
  • React on ES6+
  • Function Bind Syntax
  • 5.0.0 Released
  • Babel <3 React
  • Not Born to Die
  • 2to3
  • 6to5 + esnext

The State of Babel

December 7, 2016

Henry Zhu

  • Some History
  • Current Status
  • The Future
  • Community
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6.19.0 Released

November 16, 2016

Henry Zhu

object-rest-spread works standalone and a few new plugin options APIs were added!

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6.18.0 Released

October 24, 2016

Henry Zhu

More flow updates, and lots of fixes!

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6.16.0 Released

September 28, 2016

Henry Zhu

Happy Birthday Babel 🎂 !

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Babili (babel-minify)

August 26, 2016

Henry Zhu

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!

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6.14.0 Released

August 24, 2016

Henry Zhu

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

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Babel Doctor

November 3, 2015

Sebastian McKenzie

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.

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Setting up Babel 6

October 31, 2015

James Kyle

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.

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6.0.0 Released

October 29, 2015

James Kyle

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!

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React on ES6+

July 7, 2015

Steven Luscher

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.

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