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		nailer on Jan 19, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 2016 JavaScript Rising Stars JS -> JSX is transpilation, not a REPL.

ng12 on Jan 19, 2017 [–]

Yes, and the Babel REPL/CLI can do that transpilation.

nailer on Jan 20, 2017 | [–]

One wouldn't normally use babel as a REPL. I don't think it even has one (asides from node's own REPL, which isn't normally part of using Babel). Have you ever interactively typed commands into Babel?

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