Issue originally made by @hzoo

Roadmap/Ideas

Previous 6.0 Discussion: https://phabricator.babeljs.io/T2168

Just wrote this up real quick a week ago so for some ideas we should definetely do

Ease of use

• Fix plugin ordering, edge cases in traversal and conflicting transforms
  • relevant PRs: #3281 experimental passPerPreset, #3335 Lossy traversal
• babel init (to setup a .babelrc) T6956:
• Similarly, a babel-plugin init (to make a plugin) - https://github.com/thejameskyle/generator-babel-plugin
• Preset options (ex: 'loose mode' options, turning off commonjs, different env (browser, node)
  • relevant PRs: #3331 passing options to presets, #3349 configurable preset

Internal Development

• Better infrastructure release process with lerna
  • relevant PRs: kittens/lerna#65 canary releases, kittens/lerna#29 changelog automation
• Debugging/Performance Tracking
  • relevant issues: #3283 awesome babel-generator optimisation
• Typechecking/Code Coverage - flow + babel-plugin-instanbul

Wish List

• Automating generating a config of presets/plugins based on target environments (caniuse/autoprefixer, or dynamically)
  • Relevant links: https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/javascript-needs-compile-step/
• Other tooling intergrations (Minifying, Linting, Flow/Typescript)
• Syntax Plugins
  • Move babylon out of babel repo
  • Move jsx/flow out of babylon
  • relevant PRs #3376
• Cross-file transformations, knowing the dependency graph
• Async API

Community

• Can always work on..
  • Develop in the open more (#development slack)
  • Making it easier to contribute: better docs, easier setup, etc (do we want to use github issues again)
  • Reaching out for help with issue triage, more contributors, etc
  • Users could submit PRs with reproducible test cases instead of just posting snippets (ex: #3253)
  • Watch open source projects using Babel
• Roadmap (something like this)
• How to write plugins (https://github.com/thejameskyle/babel-handbook)
• Bring back a FAQ, add common stackoverflow/slack questions, etc.
• Post a simple newsletter for what's been going on in the babel community (new plugins, blogs, videos, ideas, etc)?
• Documentation of APIs