From 200f8eecb20a80dc5413a3ca29b52720b435e5ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James O'Dwyer <jx.odwyer@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 23:23:08 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add warning about module.exports use (#505)

* add warning about module.exports to readme

* rm unnecessary react imports
---
 README.md | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fb4fe0d8d6..e64b550f36 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -477,6 +477,29 @@ module.exports = {
 }
 ```
 
+#### Default Babel configuration
+Next.js uses Babel6 out of the box, which doesn't support default `module.exports`.
+##### Invalid:
+```js
+//  bad import
+const Link = require('next/link').default;
+
+//  bad export
+module.exports = () => (
+  <Link href='/'>Invalid</Link>
+)
+```
+##### Valid:
+```js
+//  good import
+import Link from 'next/link';
+
+//  good export
+export default () => (
+  <Link href='/'>Valid</Link>
+)
+```
+
 ## Production deployment
 
 To deploy, instead of running `next`, you probably want to build ahead of time. Therefore, building and starting are separate commands:
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