This will perform the include at the server level, making the request for it happen at the file system level on the server, so it should be far quicker than a client-side solution. And we still are, because the idea of includes is useful on pretty much every website in the world. Long before we were preprocessing our CSS, we were using tools to manipulate our HTML. People have been looking to other languages to solve this problem for them forever. For example the use case for much of the entire internet, an included header and footer for all pages. I’m talking about straight up includes, like taking a chunk of HTML and plopping it right into another. Nor does there seem to be anything on the horizon that addresses it. (a version of Babel which can handle the output from Browserify).It’s extremely surprising to me that HTML has never had any way to include other HTML files within it. To transpile modulesįiles and then pass this through Babelify Modules in ES6 allow youĬreate classes and export / import classes between files. The one feature Babel can't transpile is Modules. Adding Babel to your build process can beĭone like so.

Using Babel in Your Build Processīabel allows you to take JavaScript written using ES2015įeatures and transpiles it back to ES5 so that it can work in browsers thatĭon't support these features today. Thankfully, tools like Babel exist that make Today, you will need to transpile your code back down to ES5 so it can be Transpilation with BabelĪlthough JavaScript engines are making greatįeatures natively, there is one gotcha. We use to take full advantage of ES2015 when building JavaScript web-apps. Includes classes, arrow functions and modules. Sugaring for patterns that required significant boilerplate in ES5. Fantastic step forward for the JavaScript language.

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