7.4.0 Released: core-js 3, static private methods and partial application

March 19, 2019

Today we are releasing Babel 7.4.0!

This release includes support for TypeScript 3.4, the proposal for partial application in function calls, and static private methods.

We added support for meaningful parenthesized expressions in @babel/parser, and also made it more spec compliant than ever!

Last but not least, both @babel/preset-env and @babel/transform-runtime now support core-js@3, and @babel/template has some sweet new syntax!

You can read the whole changelog on GitHub.

7.3.0 Released: Named capturing groups, private instance accessors and smart pipelines

January 21, 2019

Nicolò Ribaudo

After over 80 commits, the latest Babel minor release is here!

This release includes support for named capturing groups in regular expressions, private instance accessors, the smart pipeline operator and a bunch of improvements to TypeScript parsing. You can read the whole changelog on GitHub.

7.2.0 Released: Private Instance Methods

December 3, 2018

Nicolò Ribaudo

We just released a new minor version of Babel!

This release includes support for private instance methods and a bunch of bug fixes regarding Flow and TypeScript types. You can read the whole changelog on GitHub.

TC39 Standards Track Decorators in Babel

September 17, 2018

Nicolò Ribaudo

Babel 7.1.0 finally supports the new decorators proposal: you can try it out by using the @babel/plugin-proposal-decorators plugin 🎉.

7.1.0 Released: Decorators, Private Static Fields

September 17, 2018

Henry Zhu

There's already another release! 7.1.0 includes support for Stage 2 Decorators and adds support for Stage 3 Private Static Fields as well as some various bug fixes.

Babel 7 Released

August 27, 2018

Henry Zhu

After almost 2 years, 4k commits, over 50 pre-releases, and a lot of help we are excited to announce the release of Babel 7. It's been almost 3 years since the release of Babel 6! There's a lot of moving parts so please bear with us in the first weeks of release. Babel 7 is a huge release: we've made it faster, created an upgrade tool, JS configs, config "overrides", more options for size/minification, JSX Fragments, TypeScript, new proposals, and more!

Removing Babel's Stage Presets

July 27, 2018

Henry Zhu

Moving forward with v7, we've decided it's best to stop publishing the Stage presets in Babel (e.g. @babel/preset-stage-0).

We didn't make this decision lightly and wanted to show the context behind the interplay between TC39, Babel, and the community.

What's Happening With the Pipeline (|>) Proposal?

July 19, 2018

James DiGioia

With the release of babel@7.0.0-beta52, we introduced a new required configuration flag to @babel/plugin-proposal-pipeline-operator, a breaking change for the pipeline operator. To clear up any confusion, let's take a look at the pipeline proposal and why we needed to introduce this configuration option.

Announcing Babel's New Partnership with trivago!

July 16, 2018

Henry Zhu

We are happy to announce a new partnership with trivago, the hotel search website.

On Consuming (and Publishing) ES2015+ Packages

June 26, 2018

Henry Zhu

For those of us that need to support older browsers, we run a compiler like Babel over application code. But that's not all of the code that we ship to browsers; there's also the code in our node_modules.

Can we make compiling our dependencies not just possible, but normal?

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