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Rack-based asset packaging system
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Migrate from 'babel-transpiler' to yarn/npm babel package? #568

Open pedrofurtado opened 6 years ago

pedrofurtado commented 6 years ago

@rafaelfranca @schneems

The integration with gem babel-transpiler is great, but that gem is outdated (and I think that is also unmaintained anymore). The last Babel version used in this gem is 5.8.x. The Babel now is 6.x and 7.x beta.

Any plans to migrate the ES6 compiling with babel-transpiler gem to yarn/npm package of Babel?

Thanks!

pedrofurtado commented 6 years ago

@rafaelfranca @schneems Do you think to insert it in roadmap?

haizop commented 5 years ago

Hoping to give this a bump. babel-transpiler does appear to be abandoned - no commits in ~3 years, and no responses to PRs or issues. What is the path forward for es6 support?

brodock commented 5 years ago

If we switch from the babel-transpiler gem dependency to requiring the user to install Babel on its own, that would allow sprockets to be used also with swc.

SWC (Snappy Web Compiler) is Javascript/Typescript/React-JSX transpiler written in rust, and beucase of that, it doesn't require NodeJS to be available on the machine, and it's also super fast (up to 16-20x faster than Babel).

They have a CLI that behaves similar to Babel (on purpose) so you can easily switch from one to the other. See: https://swc-project.github.io/blog/#migrating-from-babel for more info.

pedrofurtado commented 5 years ago

Well, we've moved to webpacker + Yarn :+1: