--- title: Introducing the New JSX Transform | daily.dev description: React 17 RC includes support for a new version of the JSX transform. Upgrading to the new transform is completely optional, but it has a few benefits. It will... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-the-new-jsx-transform-or9w0itqn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Introducing the New JSX Transform | daily.dev og:description: React 17 RC includes support for a new version of the JSX transform. Upgrading to the new transform is completely optional, but it has a few benefits. It will... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-the-new-jsx-transform-or9w0itqn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Or9w0itQN.png og:image:alt: Introducing the New JSX Transform og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Introducing the New JSX Transform **[React](https://daily.dev/sources/react)** · 5 min read · 26 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary React 17 RC includes support for a new version of the JSX transform. Upgrading to the new transform is completely optional, but it has a few benefits. It will enable future improvements that reduce the number of concepts you need to learn React. There are some performance improvements and simplifications that React.createElement does not allow. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@idoshamun** · 0 upvotes > Nice! No need to import React anymore just to use JSX --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react), [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-the-new-jsx-transform-or9w0itqn) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Introducing the New JSX Transform","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-the-new-jsx-transform-or9w0itqn","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-the-new-jsx-transform-or9w0itqn"},"datePublished":"2020-09-22T15:18:13.506Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T03:31:34.996Z","description":"React 17 RC includes support for a new version of the JSX transform. 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