Looking Beyond JavaScript: A Beginner’s Guide to JavaScript Transpilers

Brendan Eich created JavaScript in 10 days for Netscape and changed the landscape of web development. While I’m not claiming that JavaScript is THE most popular programming language out there, it’s influence and power certainly cannot be denied. I got to the party a little late and only recently started working with JavaScript. But then I came across numerous other xyz-Scripts, and was left curious by terminologies like ‘syntactic sugar’ and ‘convention-over-configuration’. Trying to make sense out of all this led to transpilers and this post is a result of that.

So the fundamental question then is — What are transpilers?

The simplest answer is that it is a source-to-source compiler. Okay, maybe that’s still not very simple. A source-to-source compiler (or transcompiler, or transpiler, call it what you want!) , in simple terms, takes code written in one programming language and converts that into code for a target language. And of course, the target language, in this case, is JavaScript.

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