Is babel still relevant for TypeScript projects ?

• TypeScript

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  TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

  

Besides, TypeScript folks themselves state that "TypeScript code is transformed into JavaScript code via the TypeScript compiler or Babel" (1), or that "You might use [babel] for speed or consistency with your existing build tooling"(2).

• typescript-plugin-styled-components

  1 418 4.8 TypeScript

  TypeScript transformer for improving the debugging experience of styled-components

In this particular case, there is an alternative to make it work without babel, but:

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• awesome-babel-macros

  1 502 0.0

  A collection of awesome babel macros and related resources

Besides, this plugin is one of the most popular ones so there is a babel alternative. But you are not guaranteed to have the same escape-hatch for other transformers.

• sucrase

  26 5,587 6.1 TypeScript

  Super-fast alternative to Babel for when you can target modern JS runtimes

🔥 Besides, there are babel alternatives growing up like SWC or Sucrase that are heavily focused on compilation speed and are much faster than the tsc transpiler or babel.

• tsdx

  45 11,162 0.0 JavaScript

  Zero-config CLI for TypeScript package development

  

If you are starting a new project from scratch, you're probably better of using a generator like NextJS for a web app or TSDX to build a TS library. TS doc suggests the same thing, the Bootstrap page is very useful in that regard.

• Next.js

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  The React Framework

  

If you are starting a new project from scratch, you're probably better of using a generator like NextJS for a web app or TSDX to build a TS library. TS doc suggests the same thing, the Bootstrap page is very useful in that regard.

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