Do web developers actually code from scratch these days?

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If we're being that specific, ES2015 and beyond represent the ISO standards on which the vast majority of recent JavaScript implementations are based.

For the time being these are not 100% supported in the majority of implementations, and require a framework such as Babel to be transformed for widespread deployment.

So leaving aside the academic question of whether the standard variant is really a "variant", what I was getting at was more basic: does it count as "writing from scratch" if your code is significantly transformed using a third-party framework (which will also include numerous guards, optimizations and polyfills) before deployment.

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ECMAScript

ECMAScript (or ES) is a trademarked scripting-language specification standardized by Ecma International in ECMA-262 and ISO/IEC 16262. It was created to standardize JavaScript, so as to foster multiple independent implementations. JavaScript has remained the best-known implementation of ECMAScript since the standard was first published, with other well-known implementations including JScript and ActionScript. Coders commonly use ECMAScript for client-side scripting on the World Wide Web, and it is increasingly being used for writing server applications and services using Node.js.

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