babel-plugin-transform-react-require

Automatically require React (or other implementations) when using JSX. This babel plugin inserts CommonJS style require where it detects JSX and React isn't all ready reaquired (or imported using ES2015 syntax).

Installation

$ npm install babel-plugin-transform-react-require

Usage

Via .babelrc (Recommended)

.babelrc

{
  "plugins": ["transform-react-require"]
}

Options

Not using React with JSX? You can define module name and module identifier as options. For instance, if you are using dom('div', {}) instead of React.createElement('div', {}), you might want to require dom, instead of React. In that case, you can override defaults by doing:

{
  "plugins": [
    ["transform-react-require", {
      "identifier": "dom",
      "moduleName": "my-dom-library"
    }]
  ]
}

This would cause the plugin to automatically require my-dom-library, when JSX syntax is detected, and store it in the identifier dom.

Via CLI

$ babel --plugins transform-react-require script.js

Via Node API

require("babel-core").transform("code", {
  plugins: ["transform-react-require"]
});

Options

Same as through the .babelrc, you can override defaults:

require("babel-core").transform("code", {
  plugins: ["transform-react-require", {
    "identifier": "dom",
    "moduleName": "my-dom-library"
  }]
});