Update: Facebook has announced it intends to re-license React under the MIT license. Details here. Facebook is in the middle of a fraught battle. No, it’s not over the pernicious tide of fake news ...

The open-source project behind Facebook's React JavaScript library has unveiled the first release candidate for React 17, its first major version in two and a half years. However, the project ...

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Recently released as an open source library, React enables developers to assemble a modern JavaScript UI fast, once you climb the learning curve The front end of a modern application is as important ...

(Writing here to provide another perspective because I don't work at Facebook or Instagram and only learned of React last week when it was first announced publicly.) I'd looked briefly at Ember and ...

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Despite many incorrect characterizations from media and industry pundits, the developers of React and React Native at Facebook never positioned their creations as pure cross-platform tools. Instead, ...

Despite many worthy contenders, React remains the most popular front-end framework, and a key player in the JavaScript development landscape. React is the quintessential reactive engine, continually ...

The next version of the popular React JavaScript library -- React 16, or React Fiber, featuring a major tech rewrite -- has reached release candidate status, amid ongoing licensing issues that are ...