Do we really need Babel?

[RMcNeely]

I would need to look closer but do we really need Babel as dependency? We aren't using JSX or any other crazy features. Is it possible to drop this?

[lewisgoddard]

Possibly not, we are on Node v18.17.1 with NPM 9.6.7 on Ubuntu 22.04.4 on the server if you want to test removing it.

[Lucas-Code27]

I tried out removing babel from the files and I'm pretty sure my method was not very clean so might have to fix that but as far as I can tell when I launched it on docker it instantly started the server instead of taking some time and there are no bugs as far as I can see so I might send a PR in a bit but I'm going to test it a bit more first

[Lucas-Code27]

ok so I reset it and removed the packages properly and only 2 modules of babel are actually needed as dependencies but after I removed the others I see this message in the get involved page

pretty sure this is the only problem I'm running this through docker on Fedora 42 in firefox and I did not notice the performance improvement this time so it must have been because I removed another module the last time I tested if anyone knows why this happens let me know I think we can run the website without most of babel

[RMcNeely]

Cool got a PR where it can be tested?

[Lucas-Code27]

sure let me send it up

[Lucas-Code27]

Sorry I sent the wrong PR thought this was a different issue let me send up the correct one

[Lucas-Code27]

ok I sent the PR