babel-preset-react-optimised

Replaces React.createElement and React.createFragment to a minifier-friendly variable to squeeze the extra bytes out of your React code.

Example

Input

From the create-react-app template.

import React from 'react';
import logo from './logo.svg';
import './App.css';

function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <header className="App-header">
        <img src={logo} className="App-logo" alt="logo" />
        <p>
          Edit <code>src/App.js</code> and save to reload.
        </p>
        <a
          className="App-link"
          href="https://reactjs.org"
          target="_blank"
          rel="noopener noreferrer"
        >
          Learn React
        </a>
      </header>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

Before (521 bytes minified)

import React from 'react';
import logo from './logo.svg';
import './App.css';

function App() {
  return React.createElement(
    'div',
    {
      className: 'App',
    },
    React.createElement(
      'header',
      {
        className: 'App-header',
      },
      React.createElement('img', {
        src: logo,
        className: 'App-logo',
        alt: 'logo',
      }),
      React.createElement(
        'p',
        null,
        'Edit ',
        React.createElement('code', null, 'src/App.js'),
        ' and save to reload.'
      ),
      React.createElement(
        'a',
        {
          className: 'App-link',
          href: 'https://reactjs.org',
          target: '_blank',
          rel: 'noopener noreferrer',
        },
        'Learn React'
      )
    )
  );
}

export default App;

After (469 bytes minified, 9.98% reduction)

import React from 'react';

/*Injected by babel-preset-react-optimised*/
const __jsx = React.createElement;
import logo from './logo.svg';
import './App.css';

function App() {
  return __jsx(
    'div',
    {
      className: 'App',
    },
    __jsx(
      'header',
      {
        className: 'App-header',
      },
      __jsx('img', {
        src: logo,
        className: 'App-logo',
        alt: 'logo',
      }),
      __jsx(
        'p',
        null,
        'Edit ',
        __jsx('code', null, 'src/App.js'),
        ' and save to reload.'
      ),
      __jsx(
        'a',
        {
          className: 'App-link',
          href: 'https://reactjs.org',
          target: '_blank',
          rel: 'noopener noreferrer',
        },
        'Learn React'
      )
    )
  );
}

export default App;

Usage

To install:

# using npm
npm install --save-dev babel-preset-react-optimised
# using yarn
yarn add --dev babel-preset-react-optimised

babel-plugin-preset-react-optimised is a drop-in replacement of @babel/babel-preset-react

{
-  "presets": ["@babel/preset-react"],
+  "presets": ["babel-preset-react-optimised"],
 "env": {
    "development": {
-      "presets": [["@babel/preset-react", {
+      "presets": [["babel-preset-react-optimised", {
          "development": true
        }]]
    }
  }
}

The preset will inject

• const __jsx = React.createElement and
• const __jsxFrag = React.Fragment

if used in the code, and replace all the usages of React.createElement -> __jsx and React.Fragment -> __jsxFrag respectively.

Therefore, __jsx and __jsxFrag is a reserved variable name, and can't be used in anywhere of the code.

You can rename the variable __jsx and __jsxFrag via the pragmaAs and pragmaFragAs options to avoid conflict.

Options

pragma

string, defaults to React.createElement.

Replace the function used when compiling JSX expressions.

See @babel/preset-react

pragmaFrag

string, defaults to React.Fragment.

Replace the component used when compiling JSX fragments.

See @babel/preset-react

useBuiltIns

boolean, defaults to false.

Will use the native built-in instead of trying to polyfill behavior for any plugins that require one.

See @babel/preset-react

useSpread

boolean, defaults to false.

When spreading props, use inline object with spread elements directly instead of Babel's extend helper or Object.assign.

See @babel/preset-react

development

boolean, defaults to false.

Toggles plugins that aid in development, such as @babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx-self and @babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx-source.

This is useful when combined with the env option configuration or js config files.

See @babel/preset-react

throwIfNamespace

boolean, defaults to true.

Toggles whether or not to throw an error if a XML namespaced tag name is used. For example:

<f:image />

Though the JSX spec allows this, it is disabled by default since React's JSX does not currently have support for it.

See @babel/preset-react

pragmaAs

string, defaults to __jsx

Replace the variable used to replace the pragma function

pragmaFragAs

string, defaults to __jsxFrag

Replace the variable used to replace the pragmaFrag function

.babelrc

{
  "presets": ["babel-preset-react-optimised"]
}

You can read more about configuring preset options here

License

MIT