Facebook Engineers - Thank You For 2017

[gabegreenberg]

To all the Facebook Engineers working on open source,

Like last year, we at Reactiflux just wanted to take a moment to thank you for all your hard work in 2017. It’s been another big year! After much anticipation React 16 was released in September, React Native has moved from v0.41 to v0.51 fixing countless bugs and adding new features, Jest has over 20 releases this year, Yarn 1.0 and Relay Modern were released, new engineers have joined (hey @calebmer, @TheSavior, @axemclion) and some have moved on (we’ll miss you @mkonicek), and that is just a tiny snapshot of 2017.

Talking with some of you, I know that the dealing with the licensing issues this year was incredibly difficult and frustrating yet you all handled the situation in such a mature and humble manner all while continuing to iterate and innovate. Thank you! We are so happy that you can continue focusing on the work at hand, especially now that this chapter is finally closed.

Guillermo Rauch recently tweeted, “As 2017 wraps up I believe more than ever that React is such a good idea that we will spend the rest of the decade continuing to explore its implications and applications.” We echo this sentiment and as 2017 wraps up, we also believe more than ever that you all embody the spirit of open source with such humility, servant leadership, and true focus on community driven progress that it continues to astound us. We thank you that these qualities are at the heart of our community. We thank you for all the time you have taken to join AMA’s and answer our questions on Twitter. For all the time you have taken to respond to issues and merge PR’s. Thank you for going above and beyond, again this year… as always.

We’d like to invite the React community to reply to this thread with your own “thank you” comments to the team at Facebook. Let’s show them how grateful we are! Feel free to include experiences with the team or just how the React ecosystem has helped you as a developer.

Sincerely,

On behalf of the Reactiflux community:
@gabegreenberg
@markerikson
@KyleAMathews
@taion
@jquense
@vcarl
@benigeri
@Phoenixmatrix
@BTMPL
@kyleshevlin
@slightlytyler
@totaldis

[arthurdenner]

Thank you! Not only the React team, but to all the open-source contributors. 🎉💓

[itsMapleLeaf]

Thanks a bunch. Keep being awesome, everyone.

[NoiSek]

Thanks to all of your hard work out there, fellows, you make my life a hell of a lot easier. 👍

[jb3]

Thank you! React was one of the first JavaScript frameworks I looked at! It was incredibly helpful and let me learn. Stay cool :)

[Nufflee]

Thank you!! Keep up the good job! 🎉💓🎉💓

[ckknight]

Thank you all. You've fostered a community I'm happy to be a part of. Keep it up!

[Izitable]

Thank you very much for all your work

[filipenevola]

Keep up :)

[wilsonrivera]

Thank you for the hard work! Keep it up!

[tducasse]

Thank you :)

[VictorJozwicki]

Thank you and keep it up !
As an IT student in France, learning something else than PHP was great ! And it allowed me to grow a little bit more as a dev. I even have my own ideas on what to make with it !

[pfreema1]

🎉 🎉 🎉

[cem2ran]

Thank you! You have changed the way I view UI programming and Open Source <3

[ermik]

I am starting a company in part because of Facebook's hard work in Open Source. Thank you!

[slice]

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    <Text>Thanks a lot, React team!</Text>
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const issue = await GitHub.getIssue('facebook/react', 11940);
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[mrscobbler]

Thank you for all you do!

[pczern]

Thank you very much! React has provided me the ability to built the best webapps on the web! Keep going!

[asgvard]

Thank you for everything you’ve done, keep it up :D

[koffeeboi]

Thank you! React has been a great success!

[gujral1997]

Thanks a lot , it's been such a great honour to use react native!

[ifeanyidavid]

Thank you for all the effort you've put in to make React awesome!

[thangngoc89]

Thank you for all of your works.

[Kureev]

Thank you 🙏

[matiasmagni]

Thank you very much!

[wesleycho]

I appreciate the investment FB and its engineers have made in React and the ecosystem. Thank you all who have contributed/maintained projects in the ecosystem! I understand from first hand prior experience that open source can be very difficult/stressful/time consuming, and so I have a deep appreciation for those who have maintained the passion for what they do and keep on the effort.

[cristhiandas]

Thank you guys, I'm new on react but I can tell you that it helps me a lot building new stuff :)

[aweary]

❤️ The React repo and documentation has seen so many great improvements in 2017. A huge thanks to the team at Facebook and everyone else who has contributed this year, it's been fun! Here's to even more great work in 2018 🥂

[quicksnap]

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

[TiarraClassified]

Thank you so much! I hope you all have a great new year!

[gregorskii]

Thank you! 😎

[jpsierens]

Thanks to the Open Source team at Facebook, keep up the great work! Front End changed so much with React in a good way.

[Hillsie]

Thank you for your contribution to the community. We all stand on the shoulders of many giants.
🥇 ❤️ React

[AndreiCalazans]

You guys are amazing, thanks to this project many people's life have changed.

[suark]

Thank you!

[kanalasumant]

Thanks a ton for this wonderful library. Highly appreciate it!

[codingleo]

Thank you all for the hard work. Really appreciate it React and it's community. ❤️

[SkylarPhx]

Thank you for your astonishing work! :)

[ajur58]

Thanks a ton for everyone who's pushing React to be such an awesome tool. ❤️
Very happy user here!

[towfiqi]

Thank you for making React MIT! :)

[AlexEscalante]

These last two years have been all about React, and more is coming! So… thanks a lot!! 😛 ❤️

[cdleon]

Thank you for making React and keeping it MIT, it completely changed the way I work on frontend, loving it!!

[onggunhao]

Thank you so much!

[sarbull]

Thank you for creating react and making it MIT. cc: @jordwalke

[zhangchao828]

谢谢react团队，让我的工作效率大大提高

[Pau1fitz]

thanks!

[jevakallio]

Thank you! You have improved my life and the lives of everyone on my team.

[AlejandroRV]

Thank you a lot to the team that create React and the people who is involved in the project.
🇲🇽 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 🇲🇽

[JasonShin]

[Juanjofp]

Thank you! <3 <3 <3

[danibram]

Thanks!

[reciosonny]

Thanks you for making react!

[wallysson-hotmart]

Thank you all of you guys that making this happen!
Please, keep this amazing things going as you guys been doing incredible awesome!!!

[crapthings]

[wenfangdu]

Thank you so much

[bliang]

Thank you!

[CasperEngl]

Thank you! 😃❤️

[kpunith8]

Thank you React Community

[jinnyMcKindy]

Thank you FB engineers! I would help you with pleasure to work on your open source project any time!

[gaearon]

Hey all, thanks for kind words. I’ll lock the thread since many are subscribed and get emails from it.