![]() ![]() In this case though, we are not transpiling between Javascript and a derivative language, but between 2 standards of Javascript: ES5 and ES6. A story of Javascript standards and transpilation compiling C code to binary executables (machine code). This, of course, is opposed to compilation which, though also a transformation of code from one language to another, can be between languages of varying abstraction levels, e.g. ![]() Transpilation is the process of transforming code from one programming language to its equivalent in another programming language, when both languages are on the same abstraction level.Īn example of this is transpiling Typescript - a strictly syntactical superset of JavaScript, to pure Javascript. Given how complex this turned out to be, it bears giving a little background on what transpilation is, and why we need it. We were naturally concerned about this, and upon investigation we found that a certain dependency of ours - or so we thought - was not being transpiled from ES6 to ES5 before being published. This came with the usual consequences such as onClick functions not working etc. Recently, we faced an issue where Javascript stopped working on our storefront frontend on Internet Explorer 11. This is no longer needed as the changes have been incorporated into the original library. ℹ️ The original version of this post referred to a fork of the are-you-es5 library. ![]()
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