diff --git a/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Babel/BabelPlugin.ts b/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Babel/BabelPlugin.ts
index 3588a84058..6fac2035fe 100644
--- a/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Babel/BabelPlugin.ts
+++ b/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Babel/BabelPlugin.ts
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
  * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
  */
 
-/// <reference path="./plugin-syntax-jsx.d.ts" />
+/// <reference path="./types.d.ts" />
 
-import jsx from "@babel/plugin-syntax-jsx";
 import type * as BabelCore from "@babel/core";
+import jsx from "@babel/plugin-syntax-jsx";
 import { compileProgram, parsePluginOptions } from "../Entrypoint";
 
 /**
diff --git a/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Babel/RunReactForgetBabelPlugin.ts b/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Babel/RunReactForgetBabelPlugin.ts
index ddd955f304..d369309340 100644
--- a/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Babel/RunReactForgetBabelPlugin.ts
+++ b/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Babel/RunReactForgetBabelPlugin.ts
@@ -7,11 +7,12 @@
 
 import type * as BabelCore from "@babel/core";
 import { transformFromAstSync } from "@babel/core";
-import * as parser from "@babel/parser";
+import * as BabelParser from "@babel/parser";
+import * as HermesParser from "hermes-parser";
 import invariant from "invariant";
 import prettier from "prettier";
-import ReactForgetBabelPlugin from "./BabelPlugin";
 import type { PluginOptions } from "../Entrypoint";
+import ReactForgetBabelPlugin from "./BabelPlugin";
 
 type ReactForgetBabelPluginResult = {
   ast: BabelCore.BabelFileResult["ast"];
@@ -21,16 +22,26 @@ type ReactForgetBabelPluginResult = {
 
 export function runReactForgetBabelPlugin(
   text: string,
-
   file: string,
   language: "flow" | "typescript",
   options: PluginOptions | null
 ): ReactForgetBabelPluginResult {
-  const ast = parser.parse(text, {
-    sourceFilename: file,
-    plugins: ["jsx", language],
-    sourceType: "module",
-  });
+  let ast;
+  if (language === "flow") {
+    ast = HermesParser.parse(text, {
+      babel: true,
+      flow: "all",
+      sourceFilename: file,
+      sourceType: "module",
+      enableExperimentalComponentSyntax: true,
+    });
+  } else {
+    ast = BabelParser.parse(text, {
+      sourceFilename: file,
+      plugins: ["typescript", "jsx"],
+      sourceType: "module",
+    });
+  }
   const result = transformFromAstSync(ast, text, {
     filename: file,
     highlightCode: false,
diff --git a/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Babel/plugin-syntax-jsx.d.ts b/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Babel/types.d.ts
similarity index 88%
rename from compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Babel/plugin-syntax-jsx.d.ts
rename to compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Babel/types.d.ts
index b85fcc23a1..bd8ea2dc65 100644
--- a/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Babel/plugin-syntax-jsx.d.ts
+++ b/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Babel/types.d.ts
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@
  */
 
 declare module "@babel/plugin-syntax-jsx";
+declare module "hermes-parser";
diff --git a/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Entrypoint/Options.ts b/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Entrypoint/Options.ts
index ea99ca12da..d1850e56f0 100644
--- a/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Entrypoint/Options.ts
+++ b/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Entrypoint/Options.ts
@@ -87,6 +87,13 @@ export type PluginOptions = {
    * Defaults to false
    */
   noEmit: boolean;
+
+  /**
+   * Enable to make Forget only compile components written in ReactScript syntax
+   * and parsed by hermes-parser.
+   *
+   */
+  enableOnlyOnReactScript: boolean;
 };
 
 export type Logger = {
@@ -94,6 +101,7 @@ export type Logger = {
 };
 
 export const defaultOptions: PluginOptions = {
+  enableOnlyOnReactScript: false,
   enableOnlyOnUseForgetDirective: false,
   panicOnBailout: true,
   environment: null,
diff --git a/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Entrypoint/Program.ts b/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Entrypoint/Program.ts
index 8ddd56d499..b62f707340 100644
--- a/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Entrypoint/Program.ts
+++ b/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/Entrypoint/Program.ts
@@ -329,6 +329,12 @@ function shouldVisitNode(
   fn: NodePath<t.FunctionDeclaration | t.ArrowFunctionExpression>,
   pass: CompilerPass
 ): boolean {
+  if (pass.opts.enableOnlyOnReactScript) {
+    if (!fn.get("__componentDeclaration")) {
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
   if (pass.opts.enableOnlyOnUseForgetDirective) {
     const body = fn.get("body");
     if (!body.isBlockStatement()) {
diff --git a/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/infer-types-through-type-cast.flow.expect.md b/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/infer-types-through-type-cast.flow.expect.md
index 67de8c28c9..398163bbdd 100644
--- a/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/infer-types-through-type-cast.flow.expect.md
+++ b/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/infer-types-through-type-cast.flow.expect.md
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ function Component(props) {
 ## Code
 
 ```javascript
-// @flow
 function Component(props) {
   const x = foo();
   return x;
diff --git a/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/reactscript-basic.flow.expect.md b/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/reactscript-basic.flow.expect.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d6940b0198
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/reactscript-basic.flow.expect.md
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+
+## Input
+
+```javascript
+// @reactScriptDirective 
+export default component Foo(bar: number) {
+  return <Bar bar={bar} />;
+}
+```
+
+## Code
+
+```javascript
+import { unstable_useMemoCache as useMemoCache } from "react";
+export default function Foo(t7) {
+  const $ = useMemoCache(2);
+  const { bar } = t7;
+  const c_0 = $[0] !== bar;
+  let t0;
+  if (c_0) {
+    t0 = <Bar bar={bar} />;
+    $[0] = bar;
+    $[1] = t0;
+  } else {
+    t0 = $[1];
+  }
+  return t0;
+}
+
+```
+      
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/reactscript-basic.flow.js b/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/reactscript-basic.flow.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9f51b4b76a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/reactscript-basic.flow.js
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+// @reactScriptDirective 
+export default component Foo(bar: number) {
+  return <Bar bar={bar} />;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/type-cast-expression.flow.expect.md b/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/type-cast-expression.flow.expect.md
index e55e032231..da7dd118a1 100644
--- a/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/type-cast-expression.flow.expect.md
+++ b/compiler/forget/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/type-cast-expression.flow.expect.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ function Component(props) {
 ## Code
 
 ```javascript
-import { unstable_useMemoCache as useMemoCache } from "react"; // @flow
+import { unstable_useMemoCache as useMemoCache } from "react";
 type Foo = { bar: string };
 function Component(props) {
   const $ = useMemoCache(2);
diff --git a/compiler/forget/packages/snap/src/compiler-worker.ts b/compiler/forget/packages/snap/src/compiler-worker.ts
index e02aecb8a5..2449549ae3 100644
--- a/compiler/forget/packages/snap/src/compiler-worker.ts
+++ b/compiler/forget/packages/snap/src/compiler-worker.ts
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ export async function compile(
 
     // Extract the first line to quickly check for custom test directives
     const firstLine = input.substring(0, input.indexOf("\n"));
+    let language = parseLanguage(firstLine);
 
     let enableOnlyOnUseForgetDirective = false;
     let gating = null;
@@ -100,6 +101,7 @@ export async function compile(
     let validateNoSetStateInRender = true;
     let enableEmitFreeze = null;
     let enableOptimizeFunctionExpressions = true;
+    let enableOnlyOnReactScript = false;
     if (firstLine.indexOf("@forgetDirective") !== -1) {
       enableOnlyOnUseForgetDirective = true;
     }
@@ -145,11 +147,12 @@ export async function compile(
         importSpecifierName: "makeReadOnly",
       };
     }
-
-    const language = parseLanguage(firstLine);
+    if (firstLine.indexOf("@reactScriptDirective") !== -1) {
+      enableOnlyOnReactScript = true;
+      language = "flow";
+    }
 
     code = runReactForgetBabelPlugin(input, basename, language, {
-      enableOnlyOnUseForgetDirective,
       environment: {
         customHooks: new Map([
           [
@@ -174,6 +177,8 @@ export async function compile(
         enableOptimizeFunctionExpressions,
         assertValidMutableRanges: true,
       },
+      enableOnlyOnUseForgetDirective,
+      enableOnlyOnReactScript,
       logger: null,
       gating,
       instrumentForget,