Do we still need to transpile node js with babel?

Almost every node js repo I find on github these days uses babel for some reason. And so do I.But I found out that recent versions of node js (particularly >8.5.0) now have full support for most of the ES6 stuff like async await, lambdas and what not.So my question is, am I missing something or can we stop transpiling already? We don't actually care about browser backward compatibility in server side JS right? Why keep using babel when node supports ES6 anyways? My webpack transpiling step takes ~10 seconds.

Submitted October 13, 2017 at 01:53PM by changingminds