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React 16 marked a major update with the introduction of the Fiber reconciliation algorithm. This improved the performance of updates and allowed for features like error boundaries, fragments, and support for asynchronous rendering.
React Native was introduced as a framework for building mobile applications using React. This allowed developers to use React’s component-based architecture for cross-platform mobile development, significantly broadening React’s applicability.
In 2015, React 0.14 was released, which introduced the ability to render React components as plain JavaScript functions. This laid the groundwork for functional components and the eventual introduction of hooks.
The early adoption of React was primarily within Facebook and its products, such as Instagram. Its ability to handle complex UIs and improve rendering performance caught the attention of other developers.
React was officially released to the public as an open-source project in May 2013. It introduced a component-based architecture and the concept of the virtual DOM, which helped optimize rendering performance.
React was developed by Jordan Walke, a software engineer at Facebook. The motivation was to improve the performance and maintainability of Facebook’s user interface, which was becoming increasingly complex due to the growing user base and features.
React provides a minimalistic approach, focusing primarily on the view layer. Developers often need to rely on third-party libraries for features like routing, forms, and animations, which can increase project complexity.
Testing React components can be more complex than testing traditional JavaScript code, especially when dealing with component lifecycles, hooks, and asynchronous operations.
While the Context API is useful for managing global state, it can introduce performance overhead if used excessively, as it triggers re-renders of all consuming components when the context value changes.
In deeply nested component structures, passing data down through many layers (prop drilling) can become cumbersome. This can make the code harder to manage and understand.