First I thought after ES6 is landed in all browsers Babel would be unnecessary in near future but now that ES guys decided to release a new version each year it seems that we're going to see Babel around for a long time!
Great job btw!
Great job btw!
Some features are pretty well supported in the major desktop browsers, but if you also include mobile browsers it doesn't look that good.
I have been wondering about this a lot. It feels like about a year since writing then transpiling ES6 became a fairly mainstream approach, and we're nowhere near having full ES6 support in enough (or actually any, for now at least) browsers with a high proportion of usage.
This is manageable because you can just reason "well, I'll transpile everything to ES5" and be done with it. But what happens when most browsers do support ES6, but not ES7, or ES8 - what about when people don't update browsers, etc. I am really worried about this becoming such a nightmare that the default will always to be to transpile everything to an older version (probably 5 or 6) for the next 2-3 years just for safety, even when some browsers do support new versions coming out.
Can anyone point me to any resources which address and discuss this issue? Your idea about specific browser version targeting in the transpiler is a great one, and one I'd not even considered before, thanks.
Caniuse has some data on Javascript support, but I'm not sure if it is at a sufficiently detailed level for this purpose.
Even if you can list a version number for each of the major browsers you need to support, that'd be awesome.
We actually tell all of our clients using our Web app to update to the latest browser when possible. Hopefully the days of companies not upgrading their browsers are almost behind us... But I'm sure many will be stuck supporting Safari 8 for example, which has very little es6 support, for a while. I know of some large corporations who can't upgrade to IOS 9 and thus Safari 9 because of ivp6 issues...