TypeScript builds ignore tsconfig compilerOptions.jsx. Output is always 'react-jsx'

[marklawlor]

Description

Libraries built with react-native-builder-bob do not respect the tsconfig.config#compilerOptions.jsx setting, and force the output to be react-jsx. This is a problem for React Native libraries which normally publish as jsx: 'react-native' or 'preserve'.

Libraries such as @emotion/native and NativeWind both rely on setting a custom jsxImportSource, which only works when a library has been published with persevered JSX. This means libraries built with react-native-builder-bob will stop working with these libraries.

The cause of this issue is the babel-preset, which should conditionally turn off '@babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx' / '@babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx-development' when jsx is set to react-native or preserve.

Packages

• create-react-native-library
• react-native-builder-bob

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Link to repro

https://github.com/marklawlor/react-native-builder-bob-jsx

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