babel vs traceur

Overview

babel

Stacks651

Followers8

Votes0

GitHub Stars42.7K

Forks5.8K

traceur

Stacks23

Followers0

Votes0

GitHub Stars8.2K

Forks650

traceur vs babel: What are the differences?

traceur: ES6 to ES5 compiler. ES6 to ES5 compiler; babel: Turn ES6 code into readable vanilla ES5 with source maps. Turn ES6 code into readable vanilla ES5 with source maps.

traceur and babel belong to "npm Packages" category of the tech stack.

traceur and babel are both open source tools. It seems that babel with 39.8K GitHub stars and 5.05K forks on GitHub has more adoption than traceur with 8.15K GitHub stars and 621 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

babel	traceur
Turn ES6 code into readable vanilla ES5 with source maps.	ES6 to ES5 compiler.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 42.7K	GitHub Stars 8.2K
GitHub Forks 5.8K	GitHub Forks 650
Stacks 651	Stacks 23
Followers 8	Followers 0
Votes 0	Votes 0

What are some alternatives to babel, traceur?

typescript

TypeScript is a language for application scale JavaScript development.

eslint

An AST-based pattern checker for JavaScript.

react

React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

@types/node

TypeScript definitions for Node.js.

prettier

Prettier is an opinionated code formatter.

react-dom

React package for working with the DOM.

jest

Delightful JavaScript Testing.

express

Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework.

mocha

Simple, flexible, fun test framework.

webpack

Packs CommonJs/AMD modules for the browser. Allows to split your codebase into multiple bundles, which can be loaded on demand. Support loaders to preprocess files, i.e. json, jsx, es7, css, less, ... and your custom stuff.