002 jsAir - Babel, the JavaScript Compiler with Henry Zhu, Amjad Masad, Logan Smyth, and Sebastian McKenzie

Babel, the JavaScript Compiler with Henry Zhu, Amjad Masad, Logan Smyth, and Sebastian McKenzieDescription:Tons of people use Babel. With the release of Babel 6, it is now a language platform as well as a transpiler. Join us as we talk about the ecosystem of Babel plugins, ASTs, and all of the neat stuff that you can do with this amazing tool with some of the core contributors to the project.Show sponsors:Egghead.io - Bite-sized web development video trainingFrontend Masters - Expert front-end training{Track:js} - JavaScript Error MonitoringLinks, Picks, and Tips:Henry ZhuLinks: JSCS and Sebastian’s JSConf TalkPicks: AST Explorer and babel-eslintAmjad MasadLinks: Meteor FibersTips: Use interface-like design and dependency injection for testing and Promises / async functionsPicks: Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Emacs, and repl.itLogan SmythTips: Join us on the Babel SlackSebastian McKenziePicks: Sainsbury's Chocolate Flavoured British 1% Fat MilkDan AbramovPicks: Tree-shaking with webpack 2 and Babel 6Kyle SimpsonPicks: Matt Mullenweg to WordPress Community: “Learn JavaScript, Deeply”. Here are some resources for doing that. and Reddit ThreadKent C. DoddsLinks: Why is Babel a Monorepo? and The Babel Plugin HandbookTips: Create dev tools for your work project. and Look into babel loose modePicks: Misunderstanding ES6 Modules, Upgrading Babel, tears, and a solution, Clearing up the Babel 6 Ecosystem, and Google MusicPam SelleTips: Take some time to reflect on the past year/2015, Jessica Paoli recently published hers.Picks: Advent of codeAbout JavaScript Air:JavaScriptAir is the live broadcast podcast all about JavaScript hosted by egghead.io instructor Kent C. Dodds. Please visit the JavaScript Air website (javascriptair.com) to see upcoming and past episodes. Also be sure to follow JavaScript Air on Twitter and Google+ to stay up to date with future episodes. Also, all episodes are on the YouTube channel as well.