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Published inNov 2019
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PublisherWiley
ISBN-139781119366447
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Matt Frisbie
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Matt Frisbie

Matt Frisbie has worked in web development for over a decade. During that time, he's been a startup co-founder, an engineer at a Big Four tech company, and the first engineer at a Y Combinator startup that would eventually become a billion-dollar company. As a Google software engineer, Matt worked on both the AdSense and Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) platforms; his code contributions run on most of the planet's web browsing devices. Prior to this, Matt was the first engineer at DoorDash, where he helped lay the foundation for a company that has become the leader in online food delivery. Matt has written two books and recorded two video series for O'Reilly and Packt, speaks at frontend meetups and web casts, and is a level 1 sommelier. He majored in Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Matt's Twitter handle is @mattfriz.
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COMPILATION/TRANSPILATION TOOLS AND STATIC TYPE SYSTEMS

Web application code written in the editor is almost never the exact code that will be served to the client. Developers often want to leverage newer ECMAScript specification features that have yet to gain universal browser adoption. Furthermore, developers also often want to augment or enhance their codebase with a static type system or features outside the ECMA specification. There are a range of tools to address different aspects of these needs.

Babel

Babel is one of the most popular tools used for compiling the latest ECMAScript specification features down to a browser-friendly ECMA version. It also features support for React's JSX, accepts a wide range of plugins, and is compatible with all major build tools.

Google Closure Compiler

Google's Closure Compiler is a powerful JavaScript compiler that is capable of varying levels of compilation optimization as well as a robust static type...

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Matt Frisbie

Matt Frisbie has worked in web development for over a decade. During that time, he's been a startup co-founder, an engineer at a Big Four tech company, and the first engineer at a Y Combinator startup that would eventually become a billion-dollar company. As a Google software engineer, Matt worked on both the AdSense and Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) platforms; his code contributions run on most of the planet's web browsing devices. Prior to this, Matt was the first engineer at DoorDash, where he helped lay the foundation for a company that has become the leader in online food delivery. Matt has written two books and recorded two video series for O'Reilly and Packt, speaks at frontend meetups and web casts, and is a level 1 sommelier. He majored in Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Matt's Twitter handle is @mattfriz.
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