The open-source project behind Facebook's React JavaScript library has unveiled the first release candidate for React 17, its first major version in two and a half years.

Beyond the usual quick tips, let's look at both the business case and the technical side of keeping React bundles lean.

In the 2017 Stack Overflow developer survey, React ranked fourth under the category “Frameworks, Libraries, and Other Technologies,” behind Node.js, Angular, and .Net Core.

React.js has followed a similar trajectory to Angular, according to the Indeed.com analysis, and has just passed jQuery as the second most popular JavaScript library.

Now available in production release, Version 16.8 of the React JavaScript UI library has the hooks capability, for using state and other React features without having to write a class.

React, also known as ReactJS, is an open source JavaScript library for building user interfaces, often for single-page applications or to add interactive views to existing web applications built ...

The next version of the popular React JavaScript library -- React 16, or React Fiber, featuring a major tech rewrite -- has reached release candidate status, amid ongoing licensing issues that are ...

Facebook has completely rewritten React, its popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces. The company hasn't previously talked about React Fiber, as the project is called, but it has ...

Facebook built the React JavaScript library so its engineering team could build interfaces for iOS, Android, and web with the same code. Now it’s giving that development super power to everyone ...