React History

React is a JavaScript library. It helps to build user interfaces. React is a flexible open-source, efficient, and declarative, JavaScript library. Using it we can build simple, fast, and scalable frontends of web applications.

It's created by Facebook. The developer who created it was Jordan Walke. It was first used in 2011 for Facebook's Newsfeed feature.

It is one such popular front-end development framework that is breaking records in the web development space.

Some notable React projects include Facebook, Instagram, Netflix, Tesla, Skype, Shopify, Discord, Uber, Walmart, and Airbnb.

Today, over 220,000 live websites are using React. Further giants industry like Apple, Netflix, Paypal, and many others have also already started using React JS in their software productions.

The best benefits of ReactJS for use in front-end development

Performance

• It creates a virtual DOM in memory. React detects what changes have been made, and makes only the changes that need to be made.

Speed

• React allows developers to utilize individual parts of their application on both the client side and the server side, which ultimately boosts the speed of the development process.

• And React finds out what changes have been made, and changes only what needs to be changed.

Reusable Components

• One of the main benefits of using React JS is the reuse of components. The code written once can be used again. It saves time for developers. 

• And, if any changes are made in any particular part, it will not affect other parts of the application.

 It offers better code stability

• React follows a downward data flow. It ensures that the parent structure is not affected by any modifications in its child structure.

• This approach ensures that only the component affected by a change will undergo an update. This data structure provides better code stability and smooth performance of the application.

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Let's see the React version History

Version Release Date

0.3.0 29 May 2013

0.4.0 20 July 2013

0.5.0 20 Oct 2013

0.8.0 20 Dec 2013

0.9.0 20 Feb 2014

0.10.0 21 Mar 2014

0.12.0 21 Nov 2014

0.13.0 10 Mar 2015

0.14.1 29 Oct 2015

15.0.0 07 Apr 2016

15.1.0 20 May 2016

15.2.0 01 July 2016

15.3.0 30 July 2016

15.3.1 19 Aug 2016

15.4.0 16 Nov 2016

15.4.1 23 Nov 2016

15.4.2 06 Jan 2017

15.5.4 11 Apr 2017

15.6.0 13 June 2013

16.0.0 26 Sep 2017

16.1.0 09 Nov 2017

16.3.0 29 Mar 2018

16.3.1 03 Apr 2018

16.3.2 16 Apr 2018

16.4.0 24 May 2018

16.5.0 05 Sep 2018

16.6.0 23 Oct 2018

16.7.0 20 Dec 2018

16.8.0 06 Feb 2019

16.8.6 27 Mar 2019

16.9.0 09 Aug 2019

16.10.0 27 Sep 2019

16.10.1 28 Sep 2019

16.10.2 03 Oct 2019

16.11.0 22 Oct 2019

16.12.0 14 Nov 2019

16.13.0 26 Feb 2020

16.13.1 19 Mar 2020

16.14.0 14 Oct 2020

17.0.0 20 Oct 2020

17.0.1 22 Oct 2020

17.0.2 22 Mar 2021

17.0.3 29 Apr 2021

17.0.4 14 May 2021

17.0.5 27 May 2021

17.0.6 27 May 2021

17.0.7 17 Jan 2021

17.0.8 01 Jul 2021

17.0.9 27 Jul 2021

17.0.10 30 Sep 2021

17.0.11 19 Oct 2021

17.0.12 22 Dec 2021

17.0.13 20 Jan 2022

17.0.14 24 Feb 2022

17.0.15 31 Mar 2022

17.0.16 07 Jan 2022

17.0.17 19 Jul 2022

17.0.18 23 Aug 2022

17.0.19 04 Oct 2022

17.0.20 24 Nov 2022

17.0.21 20 Dec 2022

18.0.0 18 Jan 2023

18.0.1 22 Feb 2023

18.0.2 29 Mar 2023

18.0.3 10 May 2023

18.0.4 21 Jun 2023

18.0.5 02 Aug 2023

18.0.6 13 Sep 2023

18.0.7 25 Oct 2023

18.0.8 06 Dec 2023