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Archeology of React (2016)
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. Just three and a half years ago we open sourced a little JavaScript library called React. The journey since that day has been incredibly exciting. Commemorative T-Shirt In order to celebrate 50,000 GitHub stars, Maggie Appleton from egghead.io has designed us a special T-shirt, which will be available for purchase from Teespring only for a week through Thursday, October 6. Maggie also wrote a blog post showing all…
This is actually where most of React’s fundamentals were born, including props, state, re-evaluating large portions of the tree to “diff” the UI, server-side rendering, and a basic concept of components. As the project was about to be open sourced, Lee Byron sat down with Jordan Walke, Tom Occhino and Sebastian Markbåge in order to refactor, reimplement, and rename one of React’s most beloved features – the lifecycle API. While it might look like an overnight success in hindsight, the story of React is actually a great example of how new ideas often need to go through several rounds of refinement, iteration, and course correction over a long period of time before reaching their full potential.
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