An introduction to JavaScript on the web and an explanation of JavaScript versions and why we need tools like Babel
Often people new to JavaScript, myself included, try to start a project with some new framework like React and are met with lots of intimidating configuration files from Webpack, Babel and co. Why is so much config needed for a language that was inherently designed for the web when creating web apps?
In this talk, I give a brief history of JavaScript versioning and how the JavaScript language evolves. I explain the reasoning for the config in web development and why tools like Babel are needed when we're programming using the hot new JavaScript frameworks and libraries.
You can access the slides at javascript.jackleslie.dev