Is Babel a compiler or transpiler?

Question

I\'ve been using Babel for a while now, and I\'ve always been under the impression that Babel was a transpiler for converting my ES6 and ES7 JavaScript into ES5 Jav

Answer 1

Transpilers, or source-to-source compilers, are tools that read source code written in one programming language, and produce the equivalent code in another language.

Babel is both a transpiler and compiler as the words can be used interchangeably.