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Know Your Babel Plugins: The Decorator Proposal

The Decorator Proposal plugin allows ES6 classes to take advantage of reusable logic that exists outside its inheritance tree. #babeljs #javascript #knowyourbabelplugins

In this series, I’ll be going over the ins-and-outs of the various plugins for Babel, the popular JavaScript transpiler. I’m going to assume you know a thing or two about Babel, NPM, and JavaScript.

The Decorator Proposal plugin allows ES6 classes to take advantage of reusable logic that exists outside its inheritance tree. To use decorators with Babel install the following plugin:

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Know Your Babel Plugins: The Private Methods Proposal

As of Babel 7.6.0 you can privatize both static and non-static methods with the Private Methods Proposal. Find out how here: #babeljs #javascript #knowyourbabelplugins

In this series, I’ll be going over the ins-and-outs of the various plugins for Babel, the popular JavaScript transpiler. I’m going to assume you know a thing or two about Babel, NPM, and JavaScript.

Encapsulation is the cornerstone of Object-Oriented Programming. Babel supports the ability to restrict access to various properties via the Private Methods Proposal plugin. Use the following…

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Know Your Babel Plugins: Transform Computed Properties

Learn about the ES6 shorthand for dynamically named object properties. #babeljs #javascript #knowyourbabelplugins

In this series, I’ll be going over the ins-and-outs of the various plugins for Babel, the popular JavaScript transpiler. I’m going to assume you know a thing or two about Babel, NPM, and JavaScript.

ES6 provides a new shorthand for creating dynamically named object properties. Babel supports transpiling this feature with the Transform Computed Properties plugin. Use this command to install…

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Know Your Babel Plugins: The Nullish Coalescing Operator Proposal

Find out how the Nullish Coalescing Operator will save the world... or at least save you from countless null/undefined checks. #babeljs #javascript #knowyourbabelplugins

In this series, I’ll be going over the ins-and-outs of the various plugins for Babel, the popular JavaScript transpiler. I’m going to assume you know a thing or two about Babel, NPM, and JavaScript.

The Nullish (or Nullary) Coalescing Operator considers the null and undefined to be falsewhile other falsy values, such as empty strings and zeroes, are not. This is very useful when setting the…

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