Use Babel Transform Inside Of React Code

I'm trying to convert a string to valid JSX code, and then inject it into my React component. const babel = require('babel-core') let result = eval(babel.transform('

Solution 1:

Instead of translating HTML to JSX, then rendering with babel in your code while on the client, you could render that html directly through your React component.

Facebook's DOM element implementation has built in functionality for this use-case, and you are right it is generally frowned upon for security reasons because it opens up vulnerabilities to cross-site scripting.

Facebook has even labeled it "dangerouslySetInnerHTML" to remind devs that this is dangerous.

So if you have HTML in a string format, you can render that in JSX in a manner such as this:

getMarkup() {
  return { __html: '<p class="greeting">Hello</p>' }
}
render() {
  return<divdangerouslySetInnerHTML={this.getMarkup()} />;
}

This comes straight from the React DOM elements documentation here: Docs

This method should also allow you to bypass having to convert your d3 output to JSX

Edit: Introductory sentence

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