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reactjs / react.dev

react.dev

The React documentation website

36Distinct people
48Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
11.8KGitHub stars
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What it is

The React documentation website

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year48 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-03-27 23:40:35 UTC to 2026-05-26 16:17:29 UTC.

0510152018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 15 mentions; 7 submissions, 8 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 2 submissions, 6 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1578
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC826
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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Alongside the work on server components, they also deprecated Create React App, which was previously the official way to create new apps for development, and which had pretty good ergonomics. However, you won't find that documented on the actual CRA site - when you go looking for why your dependencies are out of date, you'll find references in obscure GitHub issues: https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/5487#issuecomment-... As much as I like the React team and appreciate their willingness to try things (and hooks have grown on me a little), they are human, and I think some of the decisions and direction they've taken things is a mistake. I was part of the team who deliberated on the decision to use React over Vue in WordPress, and one of the reasons for my personal preference towards React was that it embraced JS rather than inventin
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g a whole bunch of new things - yes, there was the funky syntax of JSX, but aside from that all the statements were regular JS, and it was much easier to conceptually understand than learning a new language. Hooks started taking us away from that, with weird functions that magically encapsulate state, and things like suspense and server components have strayed further from the light. Making things like Next the official pathway to getting started with React is great and all for people building Node SPAs, but there's a whole wide world of software outside of that bubble, and I hope the React team peers out a little more often.
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