Pros of bubel over babel:
- No configuration (a la standard)
- Runs twice as fast, for quicker development
- Converts everything to ES5 (which is likely to be faster than ES6,
untested)
- Easy to swap Babel back in -- low commitment
Cons:
- Less battle-tested than Babel, but recommended by React core
developer so probably not too bad
- No babel plugin support, but we're not using that right now anyway.
Can switch back to babel if we need that later
BEFORE:
$ time npm run build
> webtorrent-desktop@0.16.0 build /Users/feross/code/webtorrent-desktop
> babel --quiet src --out-dir build
npm run build 3.07s user 0.27s system 115% cpu 2.902 total
AFTER:
$ time npm run build
> webtorrent-desktop@0.16.0 build /Users/feross/code/webtorrent-desktop
> buble src --output build
npm run build 1.38s user 0.16s system 114% cpu 1.343 total
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