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Babel Macro

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#150 opened on Jan 27, 2020

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Description

It would be nice to have a babel macro that automatically runs the babel plugin to remove the runtime. That way, this project would work out of the box with "zero" config tools like create-react-app.

I'm thinking it could be something like:

import {html} from 'htm/preact/macro'

This is similar conceptually to CSS-IN-JS libraries providing a macro for their tools. See https://emotion.sh/docs/babel-macros

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Study the existing htm babel plugin and emotion's babel macro implementation to understand how to create a macro that invokes the plugin.
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