Do I really need Babel or other transpilers to use ES6 with React?

Question

Do I really need Babel or other transpilers to use ES6 in React?

I was looking at the chart https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/

Seems like my current

Answer 1

Without babel you get the compatibility of the chart you linked to. But keep in mind if you want to use JSX you'll want to use babel to transpile that.