Facebook’s React project is an open source library that allows developers to quickly build apps and their user interfaces in JavaScript. But that’s a bit of an understatement, because ...

Abramov says that the community started writing extensions and modifications to the open source React project that helped it spread, attracting even more developers to the fold in so doing.

Facebook says more than 600 people have committed code to React Native’s codebase since the company open-sourced the project at F8 last year. The company also says more than 250,000 developers ...