Dec 18 meeting

[nicolo-ribaudo]

@babel/babel feel free to add items to the agenda!

• How we should move forward with @babel/preset-modules?
• estree parser plugin policy (@kaicataldo)
• Tuples&Records parser support (@nicolo-ribaudo)
  • Boolean flags vs enum for the syntax variant
• Module attributes parser support (@nicolo-ribaudo)
  • Mandatory version option?
• PR: "regenerator-runtime" import now can be controlled through include/exclude option ("regenerator-runtime" import now can be controlled through include/exclude option babel#10768)
• Babel 8 Release Plan issues
  • Disable submodule exports for packages with a single lib/index.js (Disable submodule exports babel#10850 (comment)) (@JLHwung)
  • Consider moving root AMD/UMD/SystemJS options to be plugin/preset options ([7.0] Consider moving root AMD/UMD/SystemJS options to be plugin/preset options? babel#5473) - Taken from the Babel 7.next milestone, discussed in Dec 04 meeting #104 but postponed to this meeting (@JLHwung)
  • Do not change env target default when browserslists config presents (Only change browserslist defaults if no config file exists babel#9962) (@JLHwung)
  • Add mandatory version option to the decorators plugins, and merge the two plugins in @babel/parser. (@nicolo-ribaudo)
  • Don't use an ad-hoc CJS format to transpile Babel helpers (Babel 8 Release Plan babel#10746 (comment)) (presented by @nicolo-ribaudo on behalf of @Andarist)
• Prepare v7.8.0 (@nicolo-ribaudo)
• Moving away from make (Chore/DX: move from make to JS-based taskrunner babel#10889) (@kaicataldo @nicolo-ribaudo)
• Funding status update

[xtuc]

Module attributes parser support

• The syntax might change, see Use general key-value syntax, or a single string? tc39/proposal-import-attributes#12, it's early in the TC39 process. Should we support both the as and the type: "f" syntax under a flag?
• As discussed with @nicolo-ribaudo already, I would reject any attributes that is not type to avoid plugins already relying on unwanted attributes.
• Once the support for the syntax lands in Babel, I want to implement a POC in webpack to test out the semantics of the proposal. I don't think we can implement any of them in Babel itself.

[hzoo]

• Maybe if anyone has further thoughts on how we should move forward with https://github.com/babel/preset-modules? Maybe should do another/separate chat with @developit about it?

[nicolo-ribaudo]

I have added @babel/preset-modules as the first topic so that @developit isn't forced to listen to all the unrelated things 😛

[rajasekarm]

Update team section in babel website.