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JavaScript React Router Basics Getting Started with React Router Installing React Router and Declaring a Route

Sergio Lopez
Sergio Lopez
2,892 Points
Posted by Sergio Lopez
Sergio Lopez
2,892 Points

Does this app work without using ES2015? Like regular component import?

I wonder if is needed to use the ES2015 syntax since all react router examples and tutorial works with this syntax

1 Answer

Leslie Heinzen
Leslie Heinzen
26,662 Points

Hey Sergio,

You could absolutely use the older JavaScript syntax. Both of these two lines will serve the same function in a React application, for example:

var React = require('react'); //ES5
import React from 'react'; //ES6

The React development philosophy seems to be to try to keep things as up-to-date as possible with the newest changes to ECMAScript, so it's good to know and understand ES6 well if you are working with React applications.

Leslie