| 1 | ## API
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| 3 | In this directory you'll find all the public interfaces to using Babel for both
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| 6 | ### Node
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| 8 | There are two ways people use Babel within Node, they either are manipulating
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| 9 | strings of code with `babel.transform` or `babel.parse`, they also might be
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| 10 | running their code through Babel before execution via `register` or `polyfill`.
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| 12 | ### Browser
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| 14 | Usage of Babel in the browser is extremely uncommon and in most cases
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| 15 | considered A Bad Idea™. However it works by loading `<script>`'s with XHR,
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| 16 | transforming them and then executing them. These `<script>`'s need to have a
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| 17 | `type` of "text/ecmascript-6", "text/babel", or "module" ("text/6to5" exists as
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| 18 | well for legacy reasons).
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