Just getting started with Babel? Read this guide from Flavio Copes — it’s short, so maybe 2-3 minutes to skim or 10 minutes to read.

Babel is an awesome tool, and it’s been around for quite some time, but nowadays almost every JavaScript developer relies on it, and this will continue going on, because Babel is now indispensable and has solved a big problem for everyone.

Babel is a compiler: it takes code written in one standard, and it transpiles it to code written into another standard.