🆚 Babel vs. ES6 Shim
- 📈 Babel is much more popular than ES6 Shim.
- 🌎 Babel is more popular in the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 ES6 Shim is more popular in Estonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Statistics based on 3.9M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Babel
ES6 ShimType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Babel is a 
JavaScript compiler mainly used to convert ECMAScript 2015+ (ES6) code into an older JavaScript (ES5) version to maximize browser compatibility.
Provides compatibility shims so that legacy JavaScript engines behave as closely as possible to ECMAScript 6 (Harmony).
Headquarters
United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Babel JavaScript library is 19 times more popular than ES6 Shim.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Babel is more popular in the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom, while ES6 Shim is more popular in Estonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
United States
Russia
United Kingdom
Poland
France
Canada
Germany
Japan
Australia
Sweden
Awards
- ⬆️ 62nd most popular in Singapore in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 65th most popular in Russia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 69th most popular in Poland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 82nd most popular in Sweden in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 83rd most popular in China in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 68th most popular in the United States in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 245th most popular in the United States in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Babel is more popular than ES6 Shim in all market segments.
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Education/Reference
Recreation/Hobbies
Online Shopping
Real Estate
Entertainment
Restaurants
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,906,822 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.