From 6b4f80dca85714f9e3d313b400b49d55f9af9f0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noah Loomans <noahloomans@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:32:58 +0200
Subject: Improve beginner friendlyness of dotfiles

---
 .babelrc | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .babelrc

(limited to '.babelrc')

diff --git a/.babelrc b/.babelrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f242acf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.babelrc
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "presets": [
+    // Covert code to an older version of JavaScript. This allows us to
+    // use newer syntax (like classes) without having to working if it
+    // will work in IE9.
+    "es2015",
+    // This converts the react code syntactical surger to their "plain"
+    // javascript equivalents.
+    // See https://reactjs.org/docs/introducing-jsx.html#jsx-represents-objects
+    "react",
+    // This allows us the use newer JavaScript features that are still
+    // in the working. Examples are the spread operator (https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/transform-object-rest-spread/),
+    // and class propreties (https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/transform-class-properties/)
+    "stage-2"
+  ],
+}
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