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JavaScript: Moving to ES2015
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JavaScript: Moving to ES2015

by Ved Antani, Simon Timms, Narayan Prusty
March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
821 pages
18h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Getting started with JSX

Writing JavaScript to define a tree-like structure and attributes while building UI using React is difficult and also makes it difficult to understand the UI. So, the React team came up with an alternative syntax to write React code, which is easier to write and understand. This alternate syntax is called JSX. JSX stands for JavaScript syntax extension. It looks similar to XML. Files that contain JSX code have the.jsx extension.

Compiling JSX

Of course, browsers and server-side engines cannot understand and interpret JSX; therefore, we need to compile JSX into pure JavaScript before using it.

There are various open source JSX compilers. You can find the list at https://github.com/facebook/react/wiki/Complementary-Tools#build-tools ...

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