React was created by Jordan Walke a software engineer at Meta, who released an early prototype of React called "FaxJS".
It was first deployed on facebook News Feed in 2011 and lator on instagram in 2012. It was open source at JSConf US in May 2013.
React Native, which enagles native Android, IOS, and UWP development with React, was announced at Facebook's React Conf in February 2015 and open source in March 2015.
On April 18,2017, Facebook announced React Fiber, a new set of internal algorithms for rendering, as opposed to React's old rendering algorithm stack React Fiber was to become the foundation of any future improvements and feature development of the React library.
The actual syntax for programming with React does not change. Only the way that the syntax is executed has changed. React old rendering system, stack was developed at a time when the focus of the systemon dynamic change was not understood.
Javascript functions and virtual DOM objects are called "Fibers", and each can be operated and updated separately, allowing for smoother on-screen rendering.
On sep 26, 2017, React 16.0 was released to the public on Aug 10, 2020, the React team announced the first release candidate for React V17.0, notable as the first major release without major changes to the React developer-- facing API.
On march 29, 2022, React 18 was released which introduced a new concurrent renderer, automatic batching and support for server side rendering with suspense.