Tag: Babel

Tackling Tech Debt with the Frontend Guild

I love working at Constant Contact. But like any engineering group — especially at a mid-sized, 20-year old startup-gone-public — technology can easily lag over time, drift between teams, and generally become a hassle. This time last year I wanted to do something about it, specifically for frontend tooling since that’s what I work with every […]

How to Use ES2015 Today with Babel and Gulp

ECMAScript 2015 (ES2015), formerly known as ES6, brings some great new features to JavaScript. These include block scoping, arrow functions, template strings, destructuring, and more. In July 2015, Ecma International approved it as a standard. As with any new JavaScript functionality, it is not yet fully supported — even in modern browsers. (Check out current […]