Transform JSX in the browser

Now, Babel removed browser.js from babel-core. https://github.com/babel/babel/commit/c0afdfd1a83aab0c25a1fc23cee0b09d560f4d35

React Getting Started documentation is using browser.js of babel-core 5.8.23. http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/getting-started.html

Do you have any plan for supporting JSX transformer for the browser? Will it be deprecated?

Thanks.

[jimfb]

@sebmck Am I missing something obvious here? The in-browser transformation is fairly critical to new users getting started. It is used in sample code to give people a first taste of JSX, is used in fiddles for debugging/testing/demoing, is used in a lot of places. It is even used on the reactjs homepage. browser.js seems like a fairly critical feature to me.

[Sophia-Gold]

Thanks! I actually decided to just not use JSX and you know what? It’s much easier for me to write straight JavaScript. Maybe it’s because I haven’t yet developed a large site with React, but I’m really not sure what JSX adds beyond making it easier for designers who are more familiar with html.

And the downsides are huge. Babel became a mess with version six and Webpack is kind of an odd choice for a package manger if you ask me. I give it only a year or two until that becomes almost unusable as well and then tons of people’s React projects will require major overhauls. Unless fb is going to pay its developers to work on those open source projects I see the dependencies as major liabilities.

Anyway, I’m pretty set for now 😃