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Compiling vs Polyfills with Babel (JavaScript)

Tyler McGinnis on October 05, 2017

A compiler like Babel will almost certainly be a foundational tool in building JavaScript applications going forward. A fundamental part of Babel i...
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Eugene Karataev

I've learned the difference of transpiling vs polyfilling when my runtime catch errors service started spamming my inbox with errors that some methods were not defined in IE and other old browsers. Until that day I thought that I was totally covered by Babel.