How was react formed

React was created by Jordan Walke, a software engineer at Facebook, who released an early prototype of React called "FaxJS".[35][36] He was influenced by XHP, an HTML component library for PHP. It was first deployed on Facebook's News Feed in 2011 and later on Instagram in 2012.[37] It was open-sourced at JSConf US in May 2013.[36] React Native, which enables native Android, iOS, and UWP development with React, was announced at Facebook's React Conf in February 2015 and open-sourced in March 2015. On April 18, 2017, Facebook announced React Fiber, a new core algorithm of React library for building user interfaces.[38] React Fiber was to become the foundation of any future improvements and feature development of the React library.[39][needs update] On September 26, 2017, React 16.0 was released to the public.[40] On February 16, 2019, React 16.8 was released to the public.[41] The release introduced React Hooks.[42] On August 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.[43]