The Future of JavaScript Tooling with Sebastian McKenzie
Sebastian McKenzie is a Software Engineer at Facebook and the creator of Babel and Yarn. He joins us on The Undefined to chat about the ups and downs of open source software, what it's like to work at Facebook, and a brand new toolchain he's working on that blurs the lines between JavaScript transpiler, bundler, and framework.
The Undefined Podcast · Jared Palmer & Ken Wheeler
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Show Notes
Sebastian McKenzie is a Software Engineer at Facebook and the creator of Babel and Yarn. He joins us on The Undefined to chat about the ups and downs of open source software, what it's like to work at Facebook, and a brand new toolchain he's working on that blurs the lines between JavaScript transpiler, bundler, and framework.
Featuring
- Sebastian McKenzie – Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Ken Wheeler – Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Jared Palmer – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Links
- Babel - Babel is a JavaScript compiler.
- Babel Macros - Allows you to build simple compile-time libraries
- Yarn - Fast, reliable, and secure dependency management.
- What Happened When I Peeked Into My Node_Modules Directory
- The "Remove Guy Fieri from Babel's source code" Pull Request
- The Anus NPM Package