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babel vs typescript: What are the differences?

What is babel? Turn ES6 code into readable vanilla ES5 with source maps. Turn ES6 code into readable vanilla ES5 with source maps.

What is typescript? TypeScript is a language for application scale JavaScript development. TypeScript is a language for application scale JavaScript development.

babel and typescript belong to "npm Packages" category of the tech stack.

babel and typescript are both open source tools. It seems that typescript with 74.7K GitHub stars and 9.8K forks on GitHub has more adoption than babel with 39.8K GitHub stars and 5.05K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, typescript has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1191 company stacks & 697 developers stacks; compared to babel, which is listed in 52 company stacks and 96 developer stacks.

babel Stats
  • Dependent Packages Counts - 19.9K
typescript Stats
  • Dependent Packages Counts - 137.5K
babel Release info
Latest version
7.22.9
MIT
typescript Release info
Latest version
5.4.3
Apache-2.0

What is babel?

Turn ES6 code into readable vanilla ES5 with source maps.

What is typescript?

TypeScript is a language for application scale JavaScript development.

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What are some alternatives to babel and typescript?
eslint
An AST-based pattern checker for JavaScript.
react
React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
react-dom
React package for working with the DOM.
prettier
Prettier is an opinionated code formatter.
mocha
Simple, flexible, fun test framework.
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