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by Derander 3632 days ago
It's not hard to automate with raw gulp or webpack, but it does add a significant amount of time to compilation. It roughly doubled our incremental compile times. My team decided it wasn't worth it, but it's possible that a cleverer person could decrease the overhead.
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moosingin3space 3632 days ago
I ask because I'm debating between trialing TypeScript or Elm for a personal project (I primarily work in Rust and Go on the backend/infrastructure), and iteration times are important when trying to get a frontend UI "just right".
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jsheard 3632 days ago
You could just use TypeScripts ES6 output directly during development, using a browser that supports ES6 natively, then add Babel to the build chain for public builds that need to work on older browsers.
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moosingin3space 3632 days ago
Do I generally need to use prerelease browsers for ES6 support? Sorry, it's been a long time since I've been on the frontend.
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jsheard 3632 days ago
The stable versions of Chrome, Firefox and Edge all support ES6 generators. Safari stable doesn't support them yet but the tech preview does.

https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/

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