React in 2015 - Retrospection

2015 was the year of React

React had an amazing year with tons of new releases and developer conferences thanks to the contribution of the open-source community and enterprise adopters. As a result, React is used by companies like Facebook, Yahoo, Imgur, Mozilla, Airbnb, Netflix, Sberbank and much more. For a more detailed list check out this collection: Sites Using React

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2015 January

• React 0.13 Beta with ES6 classes
• First ever React.js conference
• React Native announcement
• GraphQL announcement
• Relay announcement

2015 February

• React Starter Kit
• Atlassian rebuilt HipChat with React
• BBC rebuilt their homepage with React

2015 March

• React 0.13 release
• React Native is open-source
• React Native Android promise
• Tesco uses React

2015 May

• The Evolution of Flux Frameworks by Dan Abramov (he starts to change the game)

2015 June

• redux first public release: 0.2.0
• React moved to Babel

2015 July

• React 0.14 Beta (split to react and react-dom)
• First React conf in Europe: React Europe, talks
• RisingStack released a GraphQL ORM for MongoDB: graffiti-mongo

2015 August

• New React Devtools
• Netflix is powered by universal JavaScript
• Relay technical preview
• Netflix's Falcor technical preview

2015 October

• React 0.14
• RisingStack added Relay support to graffiti-mongo

2015 November

• Reactive2015 conference
• react-router v1.0.0 release
• Wordpress is moving to React: Calpyso
• Free redux course on Egghead.io

2015 December

• Dan Abramov joined Facebook
• Enzyme (initially Reagent) Testing utility is released by AirBnB
• React.js Conf 2016 and Diversity scholarship is announced

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