TOTouche·Nov 23, 2016
It's not a compiler optimization step. Your code will through without the plugin: https://github.com/threepointone/markdown-in-js/blob/master/...
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4 sourcesHere's a PR that fixes this issue - https://github.com/threepointone/markdown-in-js/pull/2
In Markdown-in-js: inline Markdown for React and JSXThis is a great illustration why using random babel plugins you find on the internet is super dangerous.
This works because it assumes you have named your local identifier either `markdown` or `md` and are using that. If you want to use something else you need to specify a custom pragma: https://github.com/threepointone/markdown-in-js#pragma. And that feature didn't exist until 6 hours ago.
Why is this dangerous? Let's imagine you use `markdown` and you chug along for another 5 months on this project and you need to use `mdown` in some file, or maybe a coworker uses `mdown` because why not? So it doesn't work. And you're confused. And you spend hours trying to figure out why your app is broke.
People need to realize that by using a bunch AST transforms you are creating your own one-off language, and one that has no visual indicator that
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this is different in any way. It's just a tagged template literal, right? Stick to babel plugins for official language features that at least have a chance of becoming part of JavaScript. This thing is going to stop working as soon as the developer loses interest, and then you're going to be stuck with your Frankenstein language no one can understand.
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