It’s not just a transpiler anymore. Babel 6 moves forward with a vision to power JavaScript developer tools.
Babel should be able to power minifiers, linters, formatters, syntax highlighters, code completion tools, type checkers, codemod tools, and every other tool to be using the same foundation to do their job better than ever before.
So today we’re releasing Babel 6.
This is the most significant update we’ve ever made and enables the project to truly become a platform for the community to build upon.
Read the blog post at babeljs.io