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Re:2016 JavaScript Rising Stars by nailer on Thursday January 19, 2017 @09:05AM (#13435802)
JS -> JSX is transpilation, not a REPL.
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Re:2016 JavaScript Rising Stars by ng12 on Thursday January 19, 2017 @02:00PM (#13438485)
Yes, and the Babel REPL/CLI can do that transpilation.
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Re:2016 JavaScript Rising Stars by nailer on Friday January 20, 2017 @08:48AM (#13443720)
One wouldn't normally use babel as a REPL. I don't think it even has one (asides from node's own REPL, which isn't normally part of using Babel). Have you ever interactively typed commands into Babel?
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