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JavaScript

Posted by Rocky Balboa
Rocky Balboa
19,039 Points

Typescript or Babel

Which one will be the most Typescript or Babel

1 Answer

Spencer Snyder
Spencer Snyder
4,030 Points
Spencer Snyder
Spencer Snyder
4,030 Points

Lol wut...

I'll give it a shot anyway.

typescript, I believe, is a language that compiles to JavaScript. Very similar to JavaScript but different.

Babel is a tool. It takes code written in a language other than JavaScript and makes it JavaScript. Like jsx or taking different JavaScript syntax like es6 and making it es5 so all browsers can use it.

One is a language that needs a compiler, the other is a tool that transpiles(similar to compiling) specific things to JavaScript.

You can't learn Babel, you just learn to use it. You can learn typescript because it is a language.

Spencer