React.js
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| Original author(s) | Jordan Walke |
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| Developer(s) | Facebook, Instagram and community |
| Initial release | March 2013 |
| Stable release |
15.5 / April 7, 2017
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| Repository | github |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | JavaScript |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Size | 145 KiB production 726 KiB development |
| Type | JavaScript library |
| License | 3-Clause BSD with Facebook addendum (not OSI-approved) |
| Website | facebook |
React (sometimes styled React.js or ReactJS) is an open-source JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
It is maintained by Facebook, Instagram and a community of individual developers and corporations. According to JavaScript analytics service Libscore, React is currently being used on the websites of Netflix, Imgur, Bleacher Report, Feedly, Airbnb, SeatGeek, HelloSign, Walmart, and others.
React allows developers to create large web applications that use data which can change over time, without reloading the page. Its main goal is to be fast, simple and scalable. React processes only user interface in applications. This corresponds to View in the Model-View-Controller (MVC) template, and can be used in combination with other JavaScript libraries or frameworks in MVC, such as AngularJS. It can also be used with React based on add-ons to take care of without the user interface parts of web developing.
React was created by Jordan Walke, a software engineer at Facebook. He was influenced by XHP, an HTML component framework for PHP. It was first deployed on Facebook's newsfeed in 2011 and later on Instagram.com in 2012. It was open-sourced at JSConf US in May 2013. React Native, which enables native iOS, Android and UWP development with React, was announced at Facebook's React.js Conf in February 2015 and open-sourced in March 2015. On April 18, 2017, Facebook announced React Fiber, a new core algorithm of React framework library for building user interfaces. React Fiber will become the foundation of any future improvements and feature development of the React framework.
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