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.

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🗓 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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