diff --git a/config/babel.js b/config/babel.js
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@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+// @flow
+
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2018-present, SourceCred Authors.
+ * Copyright (c) 2015-2018, Facebook, Inc.
+ *
+ * Forked from babel-preset-react-app/index.js, which is released under
+ * the MIT license.
+ */
+
+const plugins = [
+  // Necessary to include regardless of the environment because
+  // in practice some other transforms (such as object-rest-spread)
+  // don't work without it: https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/7215
+  require.resolve("babel-plugin-transform-es2015-destructuring"),
+  // class { handleClick = () => { } }
+  require.resolve("babel-plugin-transform-class-properties"),
+  // The following two plugins use Object.assign directly, instead of Babel's
+  // extends helper. Note that this assumes `Object.assign` is available.
+  // { ...todo, completed: true }
+  [
+    require.resolve("babel-plugin-transform-object-rest-spread"),
+    {
+      useBuiltIns: true,
+    },
+  ],
+  // Transforms JSX
+  [
+    require.resolve("babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx"),
+    {
+      useBuiltIns: true,
+    },
+  ],
+  // Polyfills the runtime needed for async/await and generators
+  [
+    require.resolve("babel-plugin-transform-runtime"),
+    {
+      helpers: false,
+      polyfill: false,
+      regenerator: true,
+    },
+  ],
+];
+
+// This is similar to how `env` works in Babel:
+// https://babeljs.io/docs/usage/babelrc/#env-option
+// We are not using `env` because it’s ignored in versions > babel-core@6.10.4:
+// https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/4539
+// https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/720
+// It’s also nice that we can enforce `NODE_ENV` being specified.
+var env = process.env.BABEL_ENV || process.env.NODE_ENV;
+if (env !== "development" && env !== "test" && env !== "production") {
+  throw new Error(
+    "Using `babel-preset-react-app` requires that you specify `NODE_ENV` or " +
+      '`BABEL_ENV` environment variables. Valid values are "development", ' +
+      '"test", and "production". Instead, received: ' +
+      JSON.stringify(env) +
+      "."
+  );
+}
+
+if (env === "development" || env === "test") {
+  // The following two plugins are currently necessary to make React warnings
+  // include more valuable information. They are included here because they are
+  // currently not enabled in babel-preset-react. See the below threads for more info:
+  // https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/4702
+  // https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/3540#issuecomment-228673661
+  // https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/989
+  plugins.push.apply(plugins, [
+    // Adds component stack to warning messages
+    require.resolve("babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx-source"),
+    // Adds __self attribute to JSX which React will use for some warnings
+    require.resolve("babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx-self"),
+  ]);
+}
+
+if (env === "test") {
+  module.exports = {
+    presets: [
+      // ES features necessary for user's Node version
+      [
+        require("babel-preset-env").default,
+        {
+          targets: {
+            node: "current",
+          },
+        },
+      ],
+      // JSX, Flow
+      require.resolve("babel-preset-react"),
+    ],
+    plugins: plugins.concat([
+      // Compiles import() to a deferred require()
+      require.resolve("babel-plugin-dynamic-import-node"),
+    ]),
+  };
+} else {
+  module.exports = {
+    presets: [
+      // Latest stable ECMAScript features
+      [
+        require.resolve("babel-preset-env"),
+        {
+          targets: {
+            // React parses on ie 9, so we should too
+            ie: 9,
+            // We currently minify with uglify
+            // Remove after https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2/issues/448
+            uglify: true,
+          },
+          // Disable polyfill transforms
+          useBuiltIns: false,
+          // Do not transform modules to CJS
+          modules: false,
+        },
+      ],
+      // JSX, Flow
+      require.resolve("babel-preset-react"),
+    ],
+    plugins: plugins.concat([
+      // function* () { yield 42; yield 43; }
+      [
+        require.resolve("babel-plugin-transform-regenerator"),
+        {
+          // Async functions are converted to generators by babel-preset-env
+          async: false,
+        },
+      ],
+      // Adds syntax support for import()
+      require.resolve("babel-plugin-syntax-dynamic-import"),
+    ]),
+  };
+
+  if (env === "production") {
+    // Optimization: hoist JSX that never changes out of render()
+    // Disabled because of issues: https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/553
+    // TODO: Enable again when these issues are resolved.
+    // plugins.push.apply(plugins, [
+    //   require.resolve('babel-plugin-transform-react-constant-elements')
+    // ]);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 9be3060..c1b5a86 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
       "flow-react-proptypes"
     ],
     "presets": [
-      "react-app"
+      "./config/babel"
     ]
   },
   "devDependencies": {