JavaScript frameworks compiling into vanilla JavaScript be like:

Js isn't a compiled language 😉

read again, if you don't understand, search for babel js, then try to be an academician not a soldier :D

I understood. Is it not more code generation than compiling?

Also, what's a js binary?

There is nothing like js binary. Vanilla js has become like a binary for the frameworks, that every fucking framework or library is compiling into it 😄

@linux-colonel well if you're using typescript, you do in fact compile down to Js.

It's TSC == typescript compiler.

@cftw maybe the name is confusing, but I'd rather call it transpiling
Compiling involves parsing, machine code generation, linking, etc.
And the output is a binary, never a text file (which then needs to be interpreted again).