@babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx-development enhances React JSX transformations during development. It injects additional props and attributes to JSX elements, aiding debugging and providing more informative error messages. Crucially, these development-specific features are automatically stripped away in production builds, ensuring no performance overhead. Using this plugin offers a smoother development experience for React applications by pinpointing JSX-related issues quickly and effectively. It requires Babel and complements other @babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx variations.
The npm package @babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx-development has seen irregular release frequency since March 2020. There are periods of multiple releases in a month and periods with no releases, with a noticeable decrease in releases after 2021. The most recent release was in April 2025 (version 7.27.1) and there were no releases in the months since then.
@babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx-development downloads show a generally increasing trend from March 2024 to July 2025, peaking at over 75 million. August 2025 saw a slight decrease, and September 2025 downloads are significantly lower, likely due to the month being incomplete.
