History of React

history

1. 1ReactJS was created by Jordan Walke, a software engineer at Facebook.
2. 2It was first used in Facebook's newsfeed in 2011.
3. 3React was made open-source in 2013.
4. 4Instagram also started using React in 2012.
5. 5React became popular because of its performance and reusability.
6. 6React Native was launched in 2015 to build mobile apps using React.
7. 7Over time, features like Hooks (2019) and Concurrent Mode were added.
8. 8Today, React is one of the most used libraries for web development.
9. 9Before React, updating the UI with JavaScript was messy and hard to manage.
10. 10Web apps had complex UIs, and managing DOM updates was slow and error-prone.
11. 11Facebook had performance issues in their newsfeed due to frequent UI updates.
12. 12There was a need for a fast, reusable, and maintainable UI solution.
13. 13React solved this by introducing the Virtual DOM – a faster way to update the real DOM.
14. 14It also introduced component-based architecture to break UI into smaller, manageable parts.
15. 15React made UI predictable – one-way data flow helps debug and understand apps easily.
16. 16React's goal was to make building dynamic and fast UIs simple and scalable.