Polyfills, Transpiling and Monkey Patching

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about what polyfills, transpiling, and monkey patching mean, how and when to do it, and libraries that can help you out. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:07 Toast follow up 02:45 What are transpiling, ponyfill, polyfill, and monkey patching TC39 Proposals

Pretty excited about the new JavaScript non-mutating array methods. Currently in stage 3

11:18 Transpiling unsupported CSS 15:11 Polyfills Popover polyfill

19:22 Polyfilling CSS 21:06 HTML polyfills 27:47 How to transpile and polyfill Babel

TypeScript: JavaScript With Syntax For Types

CoffeeScript

Civet

cronn/jsxtransformer: Pipeline for transforming JSX files using Babel.js and Uglify.js

Svelte • Cybernetically enhanced web apps

Polyfill.io

core-js - npm

35:46 Shiv and shims Shim vs Shiv

38:16 Monkey patching 49:08 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Cable sleeve

Wes: Air Purifier

AliExpress

Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry

Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials

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