You can get around it with a Babel transform: https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsx-control-statements https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsx-control-statements Disclo

You can get around it with a Babel transform: https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsx-control-statements https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsx-control-statements Disclosure: self-promotion. It's really frustrating that I see this React-is-crap-because-no-conditionals come up again and again but if you want them all it takes is an npm install and a line of babel config :(.