Leveraging transpilers is extremely helpful in allowing us to extend the JavaScript language in ways JavaScript engines cannot. There are a lot of amazing transpilers available in the JavaScript community and we all love transpilers, but there are things developers should be aware of when we’re using transpilers.

Items mentioned in the episode:

Babel, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Traceur, Sass, Less, Stylus, Chrome V8, Firefox SpiderMonkey, IE Chakra, TC39 Committee, React CLI, ClojureScript, Ohm, CodePen, Racket, Erlang

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Augustus Yuan - @augburto

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Ryan Anklam - @bittersweetryan

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Sarah Federman - @sarah_federman

Picks:

Ryan Burgess - Stranger Things

Ryan Burgess - Jem Young - Transpilers: not so fast my friend - Empire JS

Augustus Yuan - Github Go to Definition Chrome Extension

Augustus Yuan - StackOverflow’s Documentation Beta

Jem Young - Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness

Jem Young - Digital Ocean

Derrick Showers - Babel Try It Out

Derrick Showers - Google Inbox

Ryan Anklam - Google Keep

Ryan Anklam - Wafia - Heartburn Felix Cartel Remix

Brian Holt - HyperTerm

Brian Holt - Visual Studio Code

Sarah Federman - Elle - Women in Tech 2016

Sarah Federman - Less: The World’s Most Misunderstood CSS Pre-processor*