^ This. I'm a BE dev, but occasionally do FE maintenance. I wrote a few pages of Typescript with a young FE developer and it pulled in a ton of Babel dependenc

^ This. I'm a BE dev, but occasionally do FE maintenance. I wrote a few pages of Typescript with a young FE developer and it pulled in a ton of Babel dependencies on build which was literally 90% of the packed archive. I still have no idea what they were needed for, neither it seems did the FE dev.