Front-End

Clarifying Which Babel to Use for Compiling React Today

Babel is a toolchain to transpile new JavaScript syntax (e.g. ES6) down to older versions that is supported by browser or node.js execution environments. The latest major version at the moment is Babel 7. To transpile JavaScript React, we normally use bable. The problem is that babel is evolving so …

Web Technologies

How to Set up Loacl Development Environment for React with Webpack 4 and Babel 7

It is universally acknowledged that setting up a local dev environment is hard work. Especially for javascript frameworks that get constantly updated. The documentation for the older version suddenly stops working and you have to make sure you are installing the correct versions. In this post, I will show you …