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Not really. Usually people include them as "devDependencies", and Babel will transpile to ES5 before publishing. I think Guillermo simply didn't care. Because

by dc2 11y ago

Not really. Usually people include them as "devDependencies", and Babel will transpile to ES5 before publishing. I think Guillermo simply didn't care. Because it's not important for a joke. --- Uninformed presumptions are madness.

rubber_duck 11y ago
Umm isn't babel-runtime an actual third party language runtime dependency (like polyfills and shared code for stuff like async) ?
- shaunol 11y ago
  Indeed, it is the only post-build babel dependency required if you want things like you say: async/await. The rest are the babel dependencies are build tools.
- j_jochem 11y ago
  I wouldn't really call it a dependency since it gets inlined with the shipped code.
m_mueller 11y ago
I think it was important to him since otherwise leftPad probably wouldn't fit in a tweet so nicely..