You totally can use Inferno. You can use a package on NPM called "inferno-compat" to alias out React to Inferno via Webpack/Babel/Browserify if you want to. Alternatively, you can use Inferno as is and it has JSX Babel plugin, all the same top-level APIs and has the same ES2015 components as React (although we've put them in their own package called "inferno-component", as some people don't use them).

I hope that helped – I'd recommend jumping on the Inferno Slack if you'd like to know/understand more: https://inferno-slack.herokuapp.com/