⚛️ React Self Identifies As A Library, Reached It’s Goal

Tom Smykowski
4 min readMar 19, 2023

React 19 not available, but there is a new page revealing the shift in thinking about React

In January I wrote an article called React 19? Should we be worried?

Where Is React 19?

Long story short I, and 19 000 people who read the previous article, was worried that no new releases of React are published with the final conclusion:

Do you think React 19 is not around the corner, or maybe Meta is preparing something groundbreaking far from people’s ears 🤔?

With the most clapped comment from Benjamin that wrote:

Benjamin, you gonna love this one!

Two months after the article and one month after the comment I’ve checked the situation again. Here’s what happened.

There are still no new releases of Raact since June. It is still odd taking into account before releases were made once per month or several months.

One of the questions is if there are essential developers available to work on React. There is even a…

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Tom Smykowski

Software Engineer & Tech Editor. Top 2% on StackOverflow, 3mil views on Quora. Won Shattered Pixel Dungeon.