Year in Review
React in 2020: Month-by-Month
A month-by-month rundown of what happened in the world of React this year.
As 2020 draws to a close, I wanted to look back over the past 12 months and highlight what happened in the React ecosystem this year. As such, here’s a brief month-by-month breakdown of the year that was.
🗓 React in 2020 — Month by Month
January
- Dan Abramov reflected on his previous decade of work.
- The TypeScript team moved to Gatsby for its docs site.
- Styled Components v5 was released.
February
- React Native grew up and got its own domain name: reactnative.dev.
- An official Redux template for Create React app hit 1.0.
- React Query 1.0 appeared.
March
- RedwoodJS started to pop up on our radar. We expect to cover this a lot more in 2021.
- Coronavirus began to throw in-person React events into disarray.
April
- Preact 10.4.0 was released.
- ZEIT rebranded as Vercel. They’ve since continued to grow and raise more money.
May
- Next.js 9.4 was released (fast refresh and incremental static regeneration were the headline features).
- Recoil began to be unveiled.
- The Gatsby folks raised lots of money.
June
- The React core team joined a Facebook employee walkout in solidarity with the Black community.
- MDN began to publish React tutorials.
July
- Adobe unveiled React Spectrum, a collection of libraries to build UIs.
- Microsoft announced React Power BI, for everyone who loves business reporting.
- Next.js 9.5 came out.
August
- Facebook revealed more about how they use React themselves.
- React 17.0 RC1 came out — and had no new features.
September
- Kent C Dodds wrote a love letter to React.
- We learnt more about React’s new JSX transform.
October
- webpack 5 was released.
- React 17.0 final was released.
- Create React App 4.0 was also released.
- ...as was Next.js 10.
November
- A new Redux fundamentals tutorial was published.
- The BBC began to show off its React-based work.
- Vue 3.0 came out, keeping React on its toes.
December
- The React Christmas advent calendar began again.
- React Query 3.0 was released.
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