diff --git a/packages/babel-preset-react-app/index.js b/packages/babel-preset-react-app/index.js
index 612e2fd5fff..35d36b367a4 100644
--- a/packages/babel-preset-react-app/index.js
+++ b/packages/babel-preset-react-app/index.js
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ module.exports = function(api, opts) {
       // Experimental macros support. Will be documented after it's had some time
       // in the wild.
       require('babel-plugin-macros'),
+      // Support for Relay modern.
+      require('babel-plugin-relay'),
       // 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
diff --git a/packages/babel-preset-react-app/package.json b/packages/babel-preset-react-app/package.json
index 25534f59947..d74e6632cd1 100644
--- a/packages/babel-preset-react-app/package.json
+++ b/packages/babel-preset-react-app/package.json
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
     "@babel/preset-flow": "7.0.0-beta.38",
     "@babel/preset-react": "7.0.0-beta.38",
     "babel-plugin-macros": "2.0.0",
+    "babel-plugin-relay": "1.4.1",
     "babel-plugin-transform-dynamic-import": "2.0.0",
     "babel-plugin-transform-react-remove-prop-types": "0.4.12"
   }