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# Babel

## Links

* [Awesome Babel](https://github.com/babel/awesome-babel)
* [ts-babel](https://github.com/andy-hanson/ts-babel) - Example project showing how to use babel with TS with pipelines.
* [Jason Miller on Modern JavaScript and the Future of preset-env (2020)](https://overcast.fm/+S2WFIV_5Y)
* [Nicolò Ribaudo - How to write your first Babel plugin (2019)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeVq_U5obnE)
* [babel-plugin-transform-define](https://github.com/FormidableLabs/babel-plugin-transform-define) - Compile time code replacement for babel similar to Webpack's DefinePlugin.
* [Babel Docs](https://babeljs.io/docs/en/index.html) ([Code](https://github.com/babel/website))
* [babel-plugin-macros](https://github.com/kentcdodds/babel-plugin-macros) - Allows you to build simple compile-time libraries.
* [Codemods with Babel Plugins (2021)](https://next.egghead.io/learn/javascript/codemods-with-babel-plugins)
* [babel-plugin-codegen](https://github.com/kentcdodds/babel-plugin-codegen) - Generate code at build-time.
* [Building a Debugger: Code Analysis](https://nan.fyi/debugger) - Crash course in writing your own Babel plugin.
* [Babel Polyfills](https://github.com/babel/babel-polyfills) - Set of Babel plugins that enable injecting different polyfills with different strategies in your compiled code.
* [babel-plugin-transform-async-to-promises](https://github.com/rpetrich/babel-plugin-transform-async-to-promises) - Babel plugin to transform async functions containing await expressions to the equivalent chain of Promise calls with use of minimal helper functions.


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