Babel

Question 1

What is Babel?

Answer 1

a toolchain that is mainly used to convert ECMAScript 2015+ code into a backwards compatible version of JavaScript in current and older browsers or environments.

Javascript piler to convert es15 code to backwards compatible code??

Question 2

What is a Plug-in?

Answer 2

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

plugins enhances existing software but software works fine without plugins

Question 3

What is a Webpack loader?

Answer 3

transformations that are applied to the source code of a module. They allow you to pre-process files as you ‘import’ or “load” them.

Transformations applied to source code module

Question 4

How can you make Babel and Webpack work together?

Answer 4

Using ‘babel-loader’ package