Stop using Babel; compile JS to ES2020 #4066
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I think it's time that we move on from using Babel and start using modern browser features natively.
My understanding is that Babel is for compiling code to ES2015, which is now 9 years old. This PR changes it to ES2020, which is 4 years old, but still has a lot of useful features that are expected these days, like
async
.The use of more modern generated code also will make debugging much easier, especially with async code.
As a result of these changes, the generated code will shrunk quite a bit. Notably, shiny.min.js goes from 438201 to 125209 bytes.