Does using JSX syntax like onclick={...} require build tools?

[jkleiser]

My AppRun projects this far have been small toy apps, experiments that can be run in my BBEdit editor without any build tools at all. However, when I tried to do something like this (described in the docs as JSX syntax):

<input type="text" onchange={() => app.run("INP", rowIdx)}>

then the code after the =>ended up outside the input element, as text.
I also tried this, with no success:

<input type="text" onchange={function() {app.run("INP", rowIdx);}}>

Does this mean that I have to use some build tools including transpiling for that JSX syntax to be accepted?

I looked for examples using onchange= in the code at https://github.com/yysun/apprun-examples but found none, just a few using onclick=.

[yysun]

Yes, JSX requires a compiler. You can try the apprun CLI to initialize the development environment.

npm install apprun -g
apprun --init
npm start

[jkleiser]

Thanks.