Babel

Question 1

What is Babel?

Answer 1

A toolchain for converting ES6 code into a backwards compatible version of JavaScript, to maintain functionality in older browsers

Question 2

What is a Plug-in?

Answer 2

a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program.

Question 3

What is a Webpack loader?

Answer 3

Loaders are transformations that are applied to the source code of a module as webpack is processing the code being sent to main.js (the deployed javascript file)

Question 4

How can you make Babel and Webpack work together?

Answer 4

By using a babel loader in webpack’s config module, incorporating the babel plug-ins