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The State of ES5 on the Web (philipwalton.com)
submitted 2 days ago by pastelmind to c/javascript
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TL;DR:

  • Many websites are (unintentionally) shipping ES6+ code in production. This indicates that transpiling to ES5 is outdated practice.
  • We need a better baseline for transpilation, which should be a moving target.
  • We should transpile code in node_modules, at least for production.
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