This blog site has been archived.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…| legacy.reactjs.org
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. Today, we are publishing the first Release Candidate for React 17. It has been two and a half years since the previous major release of React, which is a long time even by our standards! In this blog post, we will describe the role of this major release, what changes you can expect in it, and how you can try this release. No New Features The React 17 release is unusual because it doesn’t add any new developer-fa...| legacy.reactjs.org
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. To share upcoming changes with our partners in the React ecosystem, we’re establishing official prerelease channels. We hope this process will help us make changes to React with confidence, and give developers the opportunity to try out experimental features. This post will be most relevant to developers who work on frameworks, libraries, or developer tooling. Developers who use React primarily to build user-fac...| legacy.reactjs.org
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. Although React 17 doesn’t contain new features, it will provide support for a new version of the JSX transform. In this post, we will describe what it is and how to try it. What’s a JSX Transform? Browsers don’t understand JSX out of the box, so most React users rely on a compiler like Babel or TypeScript to transform JSX code into regular JavaScript. Many preconfigured toolkits like Create React App or Next...| legacy.reactjs.org