Are you complaining that passing around a function reference doesn't maintain the `this` reference? That's... uh... just how Javascript works. That's how func

Are you complaining that passing around a function reference doesn't maintain the `this` reference? That's... uh... just how Javascript works. That's how functions behave, that's how prototypal inheritance works, and the class syntax maintained that behavior for backwards compatibility. That has nothing to do with Webpack, Babel, React, or any other tool. That's part of the language syntax. There's several strategies for ensuring that `this` in a function refers to a particular class instance, particularly in a React app. The basic approaches are re-binding the function every time you re-render; binding each function once in the constructor; using a decorator or utility method to bind each function once; and using the Stage 2 Class Properties syntax and writing the function using the arrow syntax. See http://reactkungfu.com/2015/07/why-and-how-to-bind-methods-in-your-react-component-classes/ http://reactkungfu.com/2015/07/why-and-how-to-bind-methods-i... for an overview of the approaches.