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I agree with your assessment, but the “major” web framework ecosystem (React, Angular, Vue) all use webpack as a de facto part of their toolchain. And webpack,
by IggleSniggle 7y ago
I agree with your assessment, but the “major” web framework ecosystem (React, Angular, Vue) all use webpack as a de facto part of their toolchain. And webpack, in turn, relies on babel. Other bundlers are commonly used as part of plugin system.
Regardless of transpiler tooling, the tooling is how most people are confident in using the most modern variants of JavaScript code. So it’s an important part of the modern js story.
- davnicwil 7y agoI agree, JavaScript the Good Parts was written in a time when there essentially was no ecosystem in Javascript to speak of, so it was by definition focused on nothing but the language. In 2019 JavaScript comes as part of a much more developed (and useful!) ecosystem that is completely tied in with tools such as Babel and Webpack and the alternatives mentioned. Even if you don't use or want to use any particular one of them, knowledge of all of them, at least what they do, is more or less essential to work in modern JavaScript to understand how the ecosystem fits together and how most projects out there use the language.