React components are created through JavaScript variables that use a createClass method to render HTML that presents data supplied in the form of properties ("props") or state, depending on whether ...

As promised in February, Microsoft embraced the wildly popular React JavaScript library in Visual Studio 2015 by providing built-in support for its JSX syntax. So I took it for a spin. It works.

Specifically, the project is to add React JSX support. JSX is the XML-like syntax extension for JavaScript commonly used with the React library. JSX support has long been the No. 1 request on the Web ...