What is use of Babel in Node.js ?

Question

Node.js Makes use of babel, What is it ? and why do Node.js Need it?

Answer 1

• Node.js is a runtime environment  which let us to use javascript for server  side coding
• JavaScript include different versions like ES5, ES6, ES7 and more 
• Every browser do support ES5, not all browsers so support ES6
• ES6 has better and presized syntaxes then ES5 which helps the developers to build the codes with ease 
• To make the browser support ES6 it is necessary to perform transpilation of code to ES5
• Transpilation is a process of transforming any the code in a language that has a similar level of abstraction. A transpiler is used by javascript to convert an ES6 code to ES5
• BaBel is the most popular tool used for transpiling ES6 code to ES5 
• Make use of this command to include babel in any application:

npm install @babel/core @babel/preset-env @babel/register babel-polyfill

• Remember we need to create a .babelrc file, where we will set babel by passing the package @babel/preset-env to perform the required Transpilation