The docs distinguish between “production grade frameworks,” listing Next.js, Remix, Gatsby and (for React Native) Expo, and “bleeding-edge frameworks,” covering Next.js App router and React Server Components.Ī section on the React team’s “full-stack architecture vision” goes into more detail, explaining that the Next.js App Router integrates data fetching with Suspense, which displays a fallback user interface while content is loading. While acknowledging that “you can definitely use React without a framework,” the docs also state that “It’s not hard to get an initial setup working, but there are a lot of subtleties involved in making an app that loads quickly even as it grows over time,” recommending use of frameworks which “solve problems like these by default.” There is more on the subject of frameworks in the guide on starting a new React project. There is also a mention for React Native and Expo for building mobile applications, noting that with React Native “it’s not a web view – your React components render real Android and iOS views provided by the platform.” The documentation now recommends using a full-stack framework, mentioning Next.js and Remix.

What is React though? The new site emphasises that React is a library that “lets you put components together” and not a complete framework like Angular. Image from State of JavaScript survey 2022. React usage has grown steadily over the last 6 years. The State of JavaScript survey shows React usage climbing steadily since 2016, to over 80 percent today, whereas Angular has declined to just under 50 percent (some developers use both). Today React has a dominant position in front-end web development. “React will soon be ten years old,” states the post by Facebook developer Dan Abramov and AWS developer education lead Rachel Nabors.Īccording to this history React was invented by Jordan Walke, then at Facebook, in 2012 but was introduced and open sourced at a US An conference on May 29-31 2013 – making May 2023 perhaps the ten year anniversary that Abramov and Nabors have in mind. The React team has released a new documentation site, including recommendations for using “a full stack React framework like Next.js or Remix.”

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