Gulp babel with babel-preset-react not transforming JSX code

Question

I'm having issue to compile react jsx code with gulp. Here is what my gulpfile.js looks like -

const gulp = require('gulp');
const babel = require('gulp-babel');

gulp.task('js', () => {
    return gulp.src('src/main.js')
        .pipe(babel({
            presets: ['es2015', 'react']
        }))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('build'));
});

gulp.task('default', ['js'], () => {
    gulp.watch('src/main.js', ['js']);
});

in my package json file

  "devDependencies": {
    "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.18.0",
    "babel-preset-react": "^6.16.0",
    "gulp": "^3.9.1",
    "gulp-babel": "^6.1.2"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "^15.4.0",
    "react-dom": "^15.4.0"
  }

when i put es2015 code it does transform. But jsx code isn't transforming.

I am trying to compile following code -

import Hello from './hello.jsx';
import World from './world.jsx';


[1,2,3].map(n => console.log(n + 1));

but it complies only es6 codes not jsx

'use strict';

var _hello = require('./hello.jsx');

var _hello2 = _interopRequireDefault(_hello);

var _world = require('./world.jsx');

var _world2 = _interopRequireDefault(_world);

function _interopRequireDefault(obj) { return obj && obj.__esModule ? obj : { default: obj }; }

[1, 2, 3].map(function (n) {
  return console.log(n + 1);
});

I also tried with webpack and found out that babel-preset-react is working but with gulp-babel it is not. In previous i was using another gulp tool to compile but this time i want to use gulp-babel but seems it's not working as expected.

Any kind of help is highly appreciated.

Answer 1

Thanks to @sven @hector to point me out.

I got it working with my traditional method browserify and babelify. Here is what it's look like

const gulp = require('gulp');
const browserify  = require('browserify');
const babelify = require('babelify');
const source = require('vinyl-source-stream');

gulp.task('js', () => {
    return browserify({ entries: ['src/main.js'] })
        .transform(babelify, {presets: ["react", "es2015"]}) // "es2015", "react"
        .bundle()
        .pipe(source('main.js'))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('build'));
});

or if you are having problem then use webpack or for gulp fan use gulp-webpack