ES6+ with React Native preview - not possible with either Salsa or TypeScript

[egamma]

From @kristianmandrup on March 2, 2016 11:59

Trying to create a React component as a class. Currently my file is called GiftedMessengerExample.js and detected as Javascript (Salsa)

Following guidelines here: https://babeljs.io/blog/2015/06/07/react-on-es6-plus

Converting method into a property declaration with arrow function. However, when I do this, the IDE complains that this is only supported with TypeScript .ts files.
However, if I change the extension to .ts it complains about my JSX and type declarations for React imports such as Text and StyleSheet etc.

Please fix this :)

class GiftedMessengerExample extends Component {

  handleSend = (message = {}, rowID = null) => {
    this._gm.setMessageStatus('ErrorButton', rowID); 
  }

Copied from original issue: microsoft/vscode#3628

[egamma]

From @davezuko on March 2, 2016 13:46

Could this be related to #6997 at all?

(As an aside, I'm not a TS user, but should it be .tsx if you're using JSX? )

[egamma]

From @kristianmandrup on March 2, 2016 14:22

Wasn't aware of .tsx but I tried it and didn't work either. Looks like a fix (or docs) is in the works from what I can gather from the other issues related to this...
Thanks!

[egamma]

Same behaviour when using the latest Code Insider build with TS 1.8.2.

Moving to TypeScript.

[mhegazy]

looks like a duplicate of #6997.