Sucrase
Dev tools
javascript transpiler
SHOW HN2018
88points
32comments
#497of 2,155 in 2018
Top 24%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.28.
Execution: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Welcome alternative to Babel with a performance focus
From 1 comment
Thank you for making this. Babel really needs some alternatives. It would be great to have a Browserify plugin (I'm not asking for anything, just speaking my thoughts).
fiatjaf on HN
Excited about the project, planning to use it with TypeScript
From 1 comment
Bublé creator here. The obvious big difference is that this supports TypeScript and Flow, which Bublé doesn't. Bublé is designed to compile a subset of ES6+ into ES5 (the subset…
rich_harris on HN
Objections
Webpack build times gain is modest because Webpack's own parsing stays slow
From 2 comments
Yep, looks like you found the plugin! Note that if you're using Webpack 4, you won't need webpack-object-rest-spread-plugin anymore, since it uses the newest Acorn, which should…
alangpierce on HNI'm not very optimistic about webpack build times getting dramatically better with Sucrase in its current state. I've seen more clear benefits when running tests using…
alangpierce on HN
Requests
Browserify plugin
From 1 comment
Thank you for making this. Babel really needs some alternatives. It would be great to have a Browserify plugin (I'm not asking for anything, just speaking my thoughts).
fiatjaf on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Bublé?
From 1 comment
How does it compare to Bublé? https://buble.surge.sh/guide/
bpierre on HN
Is there a good way to use it from Webpack?
From 1 comment
Is there a good way to use this from Webpack? Edit: https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase/blob/master/integrations/webpack-loader/
btown on HN
Alternatives named
Babel
From 1 comment
Thank you for making this. Babel really needs some alternatives. It would be great to have a Browserify plugin (I'm not asking for anything, just speaking my thoughts).
fiatjaf on HN
Bublé
From 1 comment
How does it compare to Bublé? https://buble.surge.sh/guide/
bpierre on HN
Closure Compiler
From 1 comment
Some examples of "transpilers" targeting Javascript but writen in other languages: https://github.com/google/closure-compiler https://github.com/BuckleScript/bucklescript…
tjallingt on HN
BuckleScript
From 1 comment
Some examples of "transpilers" targeting Javascript but writen in other languages: https://github.com/google/closure-compiler https://github.com/BuckleScript/bucklescript…
tjallingt on HN