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I just started a new project. We were using TypeScript for some important client side communication libraries which had no UI. This new project has a lot of UI. I chose Babel since it has built-in support for JSX -- that seemed like a bigger win than type safety.

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TypeScript also have JSX support. It's in master right now.

You just made my day with this!!!

Shameless plug but hopefully helpful: http://www.jbrantly.com/typescript-and-jsx/

And more: http://blog.mgechev.com/2015/07/05/using-jsx-react-with-type... http://basarat.gitbooks.io/typescript/content/docs/jsx/tsx.h...

And you can use it today with unofficial "Not" TypeScript https://github.com/TypeStrong/ntypescript or simply using atom-typescript extension for Atom which has it installed.

Thanks...

I found the closed issue:

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/3203

And some docs from the contributor's branch:

https://github.com/RyanCavanaugh/jsx-intro

Nothing yet mentioned in the master's markdown. Do you know when the next TypeScript release is planned for which will include this?

TypeScript 1.6 will have this. Unknown release date but there is this: https://twitter.com/jntrnr/status/620607598903996417

oh man, this makes me so happy. Two projects I really really enjoy are finally coming together without any hacks. I knew it could only be a matter of time - and I had it working with a little React.jsx(`<component />`) hack, but still, having the TS team implement it natively just makes it feel right. thanks to everyone involved! ... Can't wait till webstorm will fully support this with component property intellisense and everything. woot!

I like to use r-dom to get around JSX. I feel like, with JSX, I tend to copy-paste code or not refactor something into it's own method. With r-dom, it forces you to realize you're writing Javascript (not HTML) and try to write DRY code.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/r-dom

I was using babel, but the compiler seems to crash every chance it gets. It should be able to handle simple editing without anywhere near a crash.

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