How to install Babel (or other packages) in Sublime Text 3
Isn’t it nice when a text editor color codes your syntax for you? The following tutorial gets you set up to edit Stylus files in Sublime Text 3 by walking you through the installation of Package Control and the Babel package.
Open your Stylus file in Sublime Text
Install Package Control in Sublime Text 3
Go to Package Control’s installation page and copy the Sublime Text 3 python code. In Sublime Text 3, go to View, Show Console. Paste in the python code and hit Enter. Then, press command+shift+p to bring up the Command Palette. Type in “Package Control” and select Package Control: Install Package.
Type in and then select “Babel” when you get to the following window:
Activate Babel in Sublime Text 3
Navigate to View, Syntax, Open all with current extension as…, Babel, Javascript (Babel).
Voilá. Your .styl file is now color coded.
Aleszu Bajak was the founding editor of Storybench. He is currently the director of data visualization at the Urban Institute. Previously, he was a senior data reporter on USA TODAY's data team, part of the newspaper's national investigative unit. He is a former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at M.I.T., was a founding senior writer at Undark magazine and founding editor of Esquire Classic, a project resuscitating the magazine's archives. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, M.I.T. Technology Review and Nature.
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