React-rails: Syntax error when set defaultProps for components

[hieuhlc]

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I wrote a simple component and I want to set its defaultProps. But this weird error occurred. How am I supposed to deal with this?

Thank you very much.

[rmosolgo]

I suspect that this requires a different Babel setting than the default in react-rails. You could try customizing BabelTransformer https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails/blob/master/lib/react/jsx/babel_transformer.rb

Sorry, I use createClass so I don't have much experience here! 😬

[coryasato]

You need Babel stage: 0 for static properties to work on ES6 Classes. We use stage2 and write ours like this.

class Foo extends Component {}

Foo.propTypes = {};
Foo.defaultProps = {};

export default Foo;

[hieuhlc]

Thanks @coryasato ! Stage 2 is safer than stage 0 right? I will use stage 2.

[carlows]

Not clear to me, how do I add stage2 to react-rails?