How does TypeScript compare to Babel in handling ES6+ features?

The question is about Typescript

Answer:

Both TypeScript and Babel allow developers to use ES6+ features, with each different in approach and focus. TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that additionally types statically and has a couple of advanced type-checking features besides transpiling ES6+ code into browser-friendly formats. Typescript is ideal for type-safe applications at scale. On the other hand, Babel is purely a compiler for JavaScript; it only compiles ES6+ syntax to widely compatible JavaScript and does not include type-checking. Although Babel has an extremely rich set of plugins to tweak the transformation of JavaScript, TypeScript provides an integrated solution that offers both type safety and compatibility with ES6+. Projects that need much-needed type-checking leverage TypeScript, whereas Babel is best for projects where you want to quickly adopt modern JavaScript without necessarily having to write any type annotations.

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