React in the Real World
Created by Facebook, React was initially released in 2013. React continued to gain momentum until it looked like it was going to hit a snag in 2017 over licensing. The BSD+Patents license that Facebook was insisting on created potential Intellectual Property issues for developers. Fortunately, in September of 2017 Facebook backed down and re-licensed React under the more acceptable MIT license. The current release is 16.2.
Like the other popular frameworks, React is a free, unlicensed library so there are no perfect usage statistics, but there are several places we can look to for a good idea of overall adoption. It has over 88K stars on GitHub, and over 7 million npm downloads per month. Some of this traffic might, of course, be from development machines or mirrors, but these are good quick stats to get an idea of just how popular the library is.
React in the Real World
Created by Facebook, React was initially released in 2013. React continued to gain momentum until it looked like it was going to hit a snag in 2017 over licensing. The BSD+Patents license that Facebook was insisting on created potential Intellectual Property issues for developers. Fortunately, in September of 2017 Facebook backed down and re-licensed React under the more acceptable MIT license. The current release is 16.2.
Like the other popular frameworks, React is a free, unlicensed library so there are no perfect usage statistics, but there are several places we can look to for a good idea of overall adoption. It has over 88K stars on GitHub, and over 7 million npm downloads per month. Some of this traffic might, of course, be from development machines or mirrors, but these are good quick stats to get an idea of just how popular the library is. […]