Meta frees React to live in its own foundation

Meta has turned over control of React, React Native, and associated projects like JSX to the newly formed React Foundation, fulfilling a commitment made last October.

Matt Carroll, a developer advocate on Meta's React team, explained that the React Foundation is an independent foundation hosted by the Linux Foundation. Its founding members include Amazon, Callstack, Expo, Huawei (added since the original October announcement), Meta, Microsoft, Software Mansion, and Vercel.

"React has become critical digital infrastructure for the modern web and beyond," said Seth Webster, executive director of the React Foundation, in a statement. "By establishing the React Foundation under the Linux Foundation, we are ensuring a strong, vibrant React for decades to come – guided by open governance and shared stewardship from the global community that builds with it every day."

React is presently the most popular front-end JavaScript framework. It was used by 85 percent of developers surveyed in ...