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Babel, the JavaScript Compiler with Henry Zhu, Amjad Masad, Logan Smyth, and Sebastian McKenzieDescription:

Tons of people use Babel. With the release of Babel 6, it is now a language platform as well as a transpiler. Join us as we talk about the ecosystem of Babel plugins, ASTs, and all of the neat stuff that you can do with this amazing tool with some of the core contributors to the project.

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Links, Picks, and Tips:Henry Zhu

Links: JSCS and Sebastian’s JSConf Talk
Picks: AST Explorer and babel-eslint

Amjad Masad

Links: Meteor Fibers
Tips: Use interface-like design and dependency injection for testing and Promises / async functions
Picks: Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Emacs, and repl.it

Logan Smyth

Tips: Join us on the Babel Slack

Sebastian McKenzie

Picks: Sainsbury's Chocolate Flavoured British 1% Fat Milk

Dan Abramov

Picks: Tree-shaking with webpack 2 and Babel 6

Kyle Simpson

Picks: Matt Mullenweg to WordPress Community: “Learn JavaScript, Deeply”. Here are some resources for doing that. and Reddit Thread

Kent C. Dodds

Links: Why is Babel a Monorepo? and The Babel Plugin Handbook
Tips: Create dev tools for your work project. and Look into babel loose mode
Picks: Misunderstanding ES6 Modules, Upgrading Babel, tears, and a solution, Clearing up the Babel 6 Ecosystem, and Google Music

Pam Selle

Tips: Take some time to reflect on the past year/2015, Jessica Paoli recently published hers.
Picks: Advent of code

About JavaScript Air:JavaScriptAir is the live broadcast podcast all about JavaScript hosted by egghead.io instructor Kent C. Dodds. Please visit the JavaScript Air website (javascriptair.com) to see upcoming and past episodes. Also be sure to follow JavaScript Air on Twitter and Google+ to stay up to date with future episodes. Also, all episodes are on the YouTube channel as well.

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