Atom: JS icon becomes JSX upon opening the file, even for files that do not contain JSX markup

[sompylasar]

I'm using language-babel to transpile JavaScript, and I understand that Babel technically supports JSX in every file, but I expect only files that actually have JSX syntax to be shown as JSX, and preferably before actually opening the file.

I also anticipate it'd be hard to implement given how file icons are currently assigned based on filename and scope which for Babel is source.js.jsx.

_(the files in the GIF all contain JSX markup, but this happens for all the JS files similarly)_

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[Alhadis]

See https://github.com/file-icons/atom/issues/704#issuecomment-365807854. TL;DR: It was caused by a regression in Atom v1.24.0's code, which was fixed upstream after I reported it. The regression will vanish once the next patch release of Atom is out.

In the meantime, you can simply disable the grammar-strategy (uncheck the "Change on grammar override" option in the file-icons package settings).

I'm starting to think I should disable the strategy automatically for all v1.24.0 users (and for this version only). You're the fifth person to report this in a matter of days, and I can't imagine how many more users are currently confused as hell over this.

[sompylasar]

@Alhadis Thanks, I should've searched in closed issues, too.