Babel Flashcards
1
Q
What is Babel?
A
Babel is a toolchain that is mainly used to convert ECMAScript 2015+ into a backwards compatible version of JS in older and current browsers or environments
2
Q
What is a plugin?
A
it adds a specific feature to an existing computer program
3
Q
What is a Webpack loader?
A
transformations that are applied to the source code of a module that allow you to “translate” them
4
Q
How can you make Babel and Webpack work together?
A
you have to install them
5
Q
What is JSX?
A
Syntactical sugar for react
6
Q
Why must the React object be imported when authoring JSX in a module?
A
JSX is not really JS but Syntactical sugar for react
7
Q
How can you make Webpack and Babel work together to convert JSX into valid JS?
A
install the babel plugin for transform react JSX
