Babel and React ? Or maybe react-create-app's support ?

Hello, so is there any way to add a Babel support in a React application ? I have thought about some way to do it, like for example building the React app with a separate process and put the static files in a @nrwl/web:application but I think this is not really viable. Or maybe i can use something like Angular-builders’s custom-webpack but again I don’t think this can be the right way because it can (probably ?) interfere with nx if I try to change the default nrwl’s builder. And lastly i have also thought about Angular eject, but this is deprecated so nop…

I am not an Angular dev, I mainly work on React so I probably don’t have the correct mind set on how to do this, and this is why I am asking it here.

So what do you think ? Is there an actual right way to do it ? Could we hope about a react-create-app’s support in the future ?

[jaysoo]

@AnatoleLucet @FrozenPandaz The plugin approach to swap in babel works if the developers need to use babel plugins or presets.

CRA does more than just webpack + babel, so it’d be good if you list out feature requests that we can look into our dev-server.

[AnatoleLucet]

@FrozenPandaz Great ! I think creating a webpack config may not be enough. Create react app needs to be started with node, for exemple here is the start script which start the app on a dev server.

I will open a new issue to speak about more details.