🐛 React state init Unexpected token in Component

🎛 Configuration (.babelrc, package.json, cli command)

Here’s my basic setup package.json

{
  "scripts": {
    "start": "./node_modules/parcel-bundler/bin/cli.js ./public/index.html"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "babel-preset-env": "^1.6.1",
    "babel-preset-react": "^6.24.1",
    "parcel-bundler": "^1.6.1"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "^16.2.0",
    "react-dom": "^16.2.0"
  }
}

.babelrc

{
  "presets": ["env", "react"]
}

Couldn’t get any simpler!

🤔 Expected Behavior

This bit of code works totally fine with a create-react-app

import React, { Component } from 'react';

class Counter extends Component {
    state = {
        counter: 0
    };

    render() {
        const {count} = this.state;

        return (
            <div>
                <button
                    onClick={() => this.setState({count: count + 1})}
                >
                    Increment counter
                </button>
                <p>Count: {count}</p>
            </div>
        );
    }
}

export default Counter;

😯 Current Behavior

However, when used with the previously mentioned config at the top I get this error:

🚨  /Users/Alexandre/WebstormProjects/ReactJS/parceljs-react/src/Counter.js:4:10: Unexpected token (4:10)
  2 |
  3 | class Counter extends Component {
> 4 |     state = {
    |           ^
  5 |         counter: 0
  6 |     };
  7 |

💁 Possible Solution

In order to make it work I had to init the state inside a constructor, like so:

class Counter extends Component {
    constructor() {
        super();
        this.state = { count: 0 }
    }
    ...
}

Any Idea as to what could cause this?

[mischnic]

You need babel-plugin-transform-class-properties as well. (https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/transform-class-properties/)

This needs to be added to the babelrc file:

plugins": ["transform-class-properties"]

[speedtreammanga]

@polmoneys sure, package.json

{
  "name": "parceljs-react",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "./node_modules/parcel-bundler/bin/cli.js ./public/index.html"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "devDependencies": {
    "babel-plugin-transform-class-properties": "^6.24.1",
    "babel-preset-env": "^1.6.1",
    "babel-preset-react": "^6.24.1",
    "parcel-bundler": "^1.6.1"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "^16.2.0",
    "react-dom": "^16.2.0"
  }
}

.babelrc

{
    "presets": ["env", "react"],
    "plugins": ["transform-class-properties"]
}

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