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Fable vs Babel: What are the differences?
Fable: F# to JavaScript Compiler. It is a compiler powered by Babel designed to make F# a first-class citizen of the JavaScript ecosystem; Babel: Use next generation JavaScript, today. Babel will turn your ES6+ code into ES5 friendly code, so you can start using it right now without waiting for browser support.
Fable and Babel can be categorized as "JavaScript Compilers" tools.
Some of the features offered by Fable are:
- Functional programming and more
- Type safety without the hassle
- Modern Javascript output
On the other hand, Babel provides the following key features:
- Array comprehensions
- Arrow functions
- Async functions
Babel is an open source tool with 37.3K GitHub stars and 4.45K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Babel's open source repository on GitHub.
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- Modern Javascript works with all browsers165
- Open source77
- Integration with lots of tools60
- Easy setup56
- Very active on github26
- JSX2
- Love2
- Source maps2
- Extensions1
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What is Babel?
Babel will turn your ES6+ code into ES5 friendly code, so you can start using it right now without waiting for browser support.
What is Fable.io?
It is a compiler powered by Babel designed to make F# a first-class citizen of the JavaScript ecosystem.
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What are some alternatives to Babel and Fable.io?
Webpack
A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows to load parts for the application on demand. Through "loaders" modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.
TypeScript
TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
CoffeeScript
It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability. Specific additional features include list comprehension and de-structuring assignment.
ESLint
A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.
rollup
It is a module bundler for JavaScript which compiles small pieces of code into something larger and more complex, such as a library or application. It uses the new standardized format for code modules included in the ES6 revision of JavaScript, instead of previous idiosyncratic solutions such as CommonJS and AMD.