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## React Samples
## React Samples
Learning a new library is always easier when you have working examples you can play with. [jwh](https://github.com/jhw) put many of them on his [react-samples Github repo](https://github.com/jhw/react-samples).
Learning a new library is always easier when you have working examples you can play with. [jwh](https://github.com/jhw) put many of them on his [react-samples GitHub repo](https://github.com/jhw/react-samples).
> Some simple examples with Facebook's React framework
> Some simple examples with Facebook's React framework
* 2 early adopters: [Khan Academy](http://benalpert.com/2013/06/09/using-react-to-speed-up-khan-academy.html) and [Propeller](http://usepropeller.com/blog/posts/from-backbone-to-react/)
* 2 early adopters: [Khan Academy](http://benalpert.com/2013/06/09/using-react-to-speed-up-khan-academy.html) and [Propeller](http://usepropeller.com/blog/posts/from-backbone-to-react/)
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> The goal of Reagent is to make it possible to define arbitrarily complex UIs using just a couple of basic concepts, and to be fast enough by default that you rarely have to care about performance.
> The goal of Reagent is to make it possible to define arbitrarily complex UIs using just a couple of basic concepts, and to be fast enough by default that you rarely have to care about performance.
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> [Check it out on Github...](https://holmsand.github.io/reagent/)
> [Check it out on GitHub...](https://holmsand.github.io/reagent/)
Today marks the one-year open-source anniversary of React.
Today marks the one-year open-source anniversary of React.
It’s been a crazy ride. 2.3k commits and 1.5k issues and pull requests later, we’re approaching version 1.0 and nearing 7k Github stars, with big names such as Khan Academy, New York Times, and Airbnb (and naturally, Facebook and Instagram) using React in production, and many more developers blogging their success stories with it. The [roadmap](/react/blog/2014/03/28/the-road-to-1.0.html) gives a glimpse into the future of the library; exciting stuff lies ahead!
It’s been a crazy ride. 2.3k commits and 1.5k issues and pull requests later, we’re approaching version 1.0 and nearing 7k GitHub stars, with big names such as Khan Academy, New York Times, and Airbnb (and naturally, Facebook and Instagram) using React in production, and many more developers blogging their success stories with it. The [roadmap](/react/blog/2014/03/28/the-road-to-1.0.html) gives a glimpse into the future of the library; exciting stuff lies ahead!
Every success has its story. React was born out of our frustration at existing solutions for building UIs. When it was first suggested at Facebook, few people thought that functionally re-rendering everything and diffing the results could ever perform well. However, support grew after we built the first implementation and people wrote their first components. When we open-sourced React, the initial reception was [similarly skeptical](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1fak87/react_facebooks_latest_javascript_client_library/). It challenges many pre-established conventions and received mostly disapproving first-impressions, intermingled with positive ones that often were votes of confidence in Facebook’s engineering capabilities. On an open, competitive platform such as the web, it's been hard to convince people to try React. [JSX](/react/docs/jsx-in-depth.html), in particular, filtered out a huge chunk of potential early adopters.
Every success has its story. React was born out of our frustration at existing solutions for building UIs. When it was first suggested at Facebook, few people thought that functionally re-rendering everything and diffing the results could ever perform well. However, support grew after we built the first implementation and people wrote their first components. When we open-sourced React, the initial reception was [similarly skeptical](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1fak87/react_facebooks_latest_javascript_client_library/). It challenges many pre-established conventions and received mostly disapproving first-impressions, intermingled with positive ones that often were votes of confidence in Facebook’s engineering capabilities. On an open, competitive platform such as the web, it's been hard to convince people to try React. [JSX](/react/docs/jsx-in-depth.html), in particular, filtered out a huge chunk of potential early adopters.
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