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+# Update React imports
+
+This pattern:
+
+- Removes imports of React that are unneeded
+- Converts default imports if possible:
+- If there are named imports, converts `import React from 'react'` into named imports `import { useState } from 'react'`
+- If there are no named imports, but the `React` variable is used, converts `import React from 'react'` into `import * as React from "react"`
+
+## Existing issues
+
+This pattern does not do:
+
+- collect the used React symbols to change `import React from 'react'` into `import { useState, useMemo} from 'react`
+- figure out when the `React` symbol is properly used and should _not_ be removed, the `react-not-removed` test case
+- handle `import type React` separately
+
+```grit
+engine marzano(0.1)
+language js
+
+//patch over bugs in remove_import, needed until this is upstreamed
+pattern my_remove_import($from) {
+    $name where {
+        // Handle named imports
+        $program <: maybe contains bubble($name, $from) `import $clause from $raw_source` as $import where {
+          $raw_source <: contains $from,
+          $clause <: or {
+            // Handle module import
+            import_clause(default=$name) where {
+                $import => .
+            },
+            // Handle named import
+            import_clause(default=$default_export, name=named_imports($imports)) as $clause where {
+                $others = `false`,
+                if ($imports <: [$name]) {
+                    if ($default_export <: .) {
+                        $import => .
+                    } else {
+                        $clause => $default_export
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    $imports <: some $name => .
+                }
+            },
+            //Handle namespace import like import * as $name
+            import_clause(name=namespace_import(namespace=$name)) where {
+                $import => .
+            },
+          }
+        }
+    }
+}
+//unused
+pattern gather_imported_symbols($res) {
+    `React.$symbol` as $reactSymbol where {
+      $reactSymbols <: not some $reactSymbol,
+      $reactSymbols += $symbol
+    }
+}
+
+
+`import $import_clause from $source` as $import_line where {
+    $import_clause <: contains `React` as $react where {
+        $from = `react`,
+        if (!$program <: contains `React.$_`) {
+            $react <: my_remove_import($from)
+        } else {
+            if(!$import_clause <: contains `* as React`) {
+                $react => `* as React`
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+```
+
+## Test case: jsx-element
+
+```javascript
+import * as React from "react";
+
+<div>Hi</div>;
+```
+
+```javascript
+<div>Hi</div>
+```
+
+## Test case: jsx-fragment
+
+```javascript
+import * as React from "react";
+
+<></>;
+```
+
+```javascript
+<></>
+```
+
+## Test case: react-not-removed
+
+```javascript
+import React from "react";
+
+React.createElement("div", {});
+
+Promise.resolve(React);
+
+<div>Hi</div>;
+```
+
+```javascript
+import * as React from "react";
+
+React.createElement("div", {});
+
+Promise.resolve(React);
+
+<div>Hi</div>;
+```
+
+## Test case: variable-already-used
+
+```javascript
+import * as React from "react";
+
+React.createElement("div", {});
+
+createElement("someFunction");
+
+<div>Hi</div>;
+```
+
+## Test case: default-and-multiple-specifiers-import-react-variable
+
+```javascript
+import React, { createElement, useState } from "react";
+
+React.createElement("div", {});
+
+<div>Hi</div>;
+```
+
+```javascript
+import { createElement, useState } from "react";
+import * as React from "react";
+
+React.createElement("div", {});
+
+<div>Hi</div>;
+```
+
+## Test case: default-and-multiple-specifiers-import
+
+```javascript
+import React, { type Element, createElement, useState } from "react";
+
+<div>Hi</div>;
+```
+
+```javascript
+import type { Element } from "react";
+import { createElement, useState } from "react";
+
+<div>Hi</div>;
+```
+
+## Test case: leading-comment
+
+```javascript
+/**
+ * Hello world.
+ */
+
+import * as React from "react";
+
+<div></div>;
+```
+
+```javascript
+/**
+ * Hello world.
+ */
+
+<div></div>
+```
+
+## Test case: react-already-used-named-export
+
+```javascript
+import * as React from "react";
+
+React.useState(false);
+```
+
+## Test case: react-basic-default-export-jsx-element-react-variable
+
+```javascript
+import React from "react";
+
+React.createElement("div", {});
+
+<div></div>;
+```
+
+```javascript
+import { createElement } from "react";
+
+createElement("div", {});
+
+<div></div>;
+```
+
+## Test case: react-basic-default-export-jsx-element
+
+```javascript
+import React from "react";
+
+<div></div>;
+```
+
+```javascript
+<div></div>
+```
+
+## Test case: react-basic-default-export
+
+```javascript
+import React from "react";
+
+React.createElement("div", "la");
+```
+
+```javascript
+import { createElement } from "react";
+
+createElement("div", "la");
+```
+
+## Test case: react-jsx-member-expression
+
+```javascript
+import React, { useState } from "react";
+
+<React.Fragment />;
+```
+
+```javascript
+import { Fragment, useState } from "react";
+
+<Fragment />;
+```
+
+## Test case: react-type-default-export
+
+```javascript
+import type React from "react";
+import * as React from "react";
+
+<div>Hi</div>;
+```
+
+```javascript
+import type React from "react";
+
+<div>Hi</div>;
+```
+
+## Test case: react-type-not-removed
+
+```javascript
+import type React, { Node } from "react";
+import * as React from "react";
+
+<div>Hi</div>;
+```
+
+```javascript
+import type React, { Node } from "react";
+
+<div>Hi</div>;
+```
+
+## Test case: destructure-named-imports-react-not-removed
+
+```javascript
+import * as React from "react";
+
+React.createElement("div", {});
+
+Promise.resolve(React);
+
+<div>Hi</div>;
+```
+
+## Test case: destructure-named-imports-variable-used
+
+```javascript
+import * as React from "react";
+import { createElement } from "react";
+
+React.createElement("div", {});
+
+<div>Hi</div>;
+```
+
+## Test case: destructure-named-imports
+
+```javascript
+import * as React from "react";
+
+React.useState(false);
+
+<div />;
+```
+
+```javascript
+import { useState } from "react";
+
+useState(false);
+
+<div />;
+```