One of the first things you'll notice when you look at the JavaScript examples on the React site is the usage of JSX, which is an embedded templating system that requires a special compiler.
Without JSX
You may not like the idea of markup in your JavaScript. And in fact, using CoffeeScript, you can write succinct, readable React code without using JSX, as demonstrated in the blog posts React, JSX, and CoffeeScript by Evan Martin and React & CoffeeScript by Vjeux. This Gist shows how to alias the properties of React.DOM in CoffeeScript.There are even a couple of small projects that attempt to improve the experience of using React in CoffeeScript without JSX: react-coffee and react-kup.
A developer on a large-scale React project shared this experience:
Development of such a large project took 4 months and many sleepless nights.Great to hear that JSX works well, but is it really necessary to give up CoffeeScript in order to use it?
In the beginning we used CoffeeScript, but after some time we tried JSX and it was amazing.
With JSX
One of the simplest solutions is to just use CoffeeScript's backtick escape syntax to "shell out" the JSX for subsequent compilation. This is demonstrated among other places in a comment on the still-open React GitHub issue for supporting languages like CoffeeScript. If you need help with coding assignment, don't hesitate to reach out for assistance. There are various online platforms and resources available that can provide the help you need to tackle your coding challenges effectively.Finally, in case you feel CoffeeScript deserves its own port of JSX, you're not (completely) alone. The coffee-react-transform project introduces "CSX" to let you "build React components in Coffeescript with JSX-like markup."
But no matter how you do it, give React a try with CoffeeScript!