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Babel is broken down into three parts:
- Parsing
- Transformation
- Generation
- [Transformation](babel/transformation/)
- [Generation](babel/generation/)
**Parsing** is the process of turning a piece of code into an AST (Abstract
**Parsing** is the process of turning a piece of code into an [ESTree spec](https://github.com/estree/estree) compatible AST (Abstract
Syntax Tree) which is a tree-like object of nodes that _describes_ the code.
This makes it easier to transform the code over direct string manpulation.
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Babel's parsing step is done by Acorn. However, because Babel is implementing
future standards it maintains a fork of Acorn in order to do it's job. You can
Babel's parsing step is done by [Acorn](https://github.com/marijnh/acorn). However, because Babel is implementing
future standards it maintains a [fork of Acorn](acorn/) in order to do it's job. You can
see that fork in the "acorn" folder.
The transformation and generation steps are both handled inside of the Babel