For the first time, Babel is participating in Summer of Code! Although we forgot to make an announcement post earlier, here's our progress update 😊

We are moving the migration guide to a docs page instead of a blog post!

Check out v7-migration-api!​

Refer users to this document for those that create tools that depend on Babel (such as Babel plugins).

We are moving the migration guide to a docs page instead of a blog post!

Check out v7-migration!​

In this release: multiple improvements to the react-constant-elements plugin by @STRML, some codegen optimizations, and lots of bug fixes! Thanks to @loganfsmyth for the release + reviews!

• Some History
• Current Status
• The Future
• Community

object-rest-spread works standalone and a few new plugin options APIs were added!

More flow updates, and lots of fixes!

Happy Birthday Babel 🎂 !

We released Babili as beta (0.0.1) a few days ago under an MIT license!

Try it out in the Babel REPL and report any bugs or potential optimizations we can make! There's also a #minify slack room!

A new es2017, latest preset, and lots of fixes in this release.