Open Source Spotlight: React
By BIOS Founding Team
React was built inside Facebook (now Meta) to solve internal problems with keeping their newsfeed UI fast and consistent as it grew more complex. It was open sourced in 2013, and its component-based, declarative approach to building UIs went on to reshape how most of the web is built.
React itself is maintained by Meta alongside a large open source community, and the ecosystem around it, Next.js (which this very BIOS website is built with), Remix, and countless component libraries, is almost entirely community-driven.
For BIOS members working in frontend or full-stack roles, React is one of the most in-demand skills in the industry, and one of the most approachable large-scale open source projects to start contributing to, from the core library to its documentation to the wider ecosystem of tools built on top of it.
Good first contributions don't have to touch React's core, contributing to a popular component library, writing tutorials, or fixing documentation in the React ecosystem all count as real open source experience.
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