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There’s a bit of a gap in announcements between 2012 and 2017, but on 11 July 2013 (just nine days after React’s first public release) Twitter released Flight — “a lightweight, component-based JavaScript framework that maps behavior to DOM nodes” — which was used by Twitter at the time. The last release of Flight was in 2015 and it’s not under active development in 2022, but it’s interesting to note that whilst Flight was “organized around the existing DOM model” to “take advantage of native features”, React’s JSX abstraction ultimately gained more traction at the time. And React is still growing almost a decade later, as proved by the results of the latest Jamstack Community Survey:
Encouragingly, Twitter made sure to consider this carefully in 2010 by building a Mustache-based rendering system that ran on both the server and client. (It’s a shame this didn’t persist into the present day!)