Frontend Mar 31, 2019

Transform for Good -- Using Babel Macros

Babel plugins are a powerful tool we use daily to transform and modify our code helping us create great projects faster. They can take entire mundane and repetitive code blocks and abstract them away, making the process faster and more enjoyable. But once we’ve made a plugin, if we’ve gotten that far, the set-up then config can be daunting. Enter Babel-plugin-macros. This allows us to do project-wide code transforms will all the benefits of a plugin, but with zero config. And we all love zero config.

About the speaker:

I work at USAA as a full stack JavaScript developer. Teaching JavaScript fundamentals from beginning to excited is a personal passion of mine. I host and produce a podcast, JavaScript to Elm, to get the word out about types and the paradigm of functional programming. I have dad jokes for days.