JavaScript Transpilers: What They Are And Why We Need Them | DigitalOcean

Introduction 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. Languages you write that transpile to JavaScript are often called compile-to-JS languages, and are said to target JavaScript. Oh, and, even though people tend to use “compile[r]” and “transpile[r]” interchangeably, I’ll pr