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
2015 March
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
andreact-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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