react-jsx

Question 1

What is JSX?

Answer 1

a syntax extension to javascript. aka , adds additional syntax to javascript that is eventually compiled to js code. nothing actually runs in jsx. it just helps to get a visual idea of what your dom looks like when building in react

Question 2

Why must the React object be imported when authoring JSX in a module?

Answer 2

because JSX must compile into React methods likes createElement(type,props,children). which is then converted to js

Question 3

How can you make Webpack and Babel work together to convert JSX into valid JavaScript?

Answer 3

by telling babel-loader to use babel-transform.

Question 4

details about plug-ins and webpacks

Answer 4

webpack isnt useful without a loader and a loader isn’t useful without a plugin