Comment by Favourite Jome on "JSX and Components in React"

Favourite Jome

Software Engineer @bug0

Feb 25, 2022

Awesome explanation Clara 👍

But I noticed you mentioned "returns HTML" in several places in the article, well it technically returns JSX, so both Functional, Class Component render methods all return JSX not HTML.

Just wanted to drop that, but overall wonderful writeup. Thanks for sharing!

Clara Nduka

Software Engineer, Data

Mar 7, 2022

Babel handles converting our JSX to JavaScript code so that React can render our applications. We can make use of the current tools like transpilers so that we can write clean and readable code. Let the tools (Babel) convert our code to something that browsers can understand. Browsers can't read JSX because there is no inherent implementation for the browser engines to read and understand them. JSX is not intended to be implemented by the engines or browsers, it is intended to be used by various transpilers to transform these JSX into valid JavaScript code.

It seems you didn't understand what I was trying to say, but no worries Nduka Clara.

Yeah, it's true that a transpilers are used to convert JSX to JS. 👍

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