React
More info
- Creator
- Jordan Walke (Facebook)
- Released
- Owner
- Meta
- Type
- UI library
- License
- MIT
- Website
- react.dev
- Source
- github.com/facebook/react
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
The frontend library from Meta — components, virtual DOM, declarative UI.
Has dominated the market since ~2017. Built on JSX, hooks (useState, useEffect), and unidirectional data flow. Upper layer: Next.js for SSR/routing. Competitors: Vue (simpler), Svelte (smaller runtime), SolidJS (faster).