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It's always been Michael and Ryan's project. They wanted to move it back out -- I assume to help promote their training business -- and that seems perfectly fai
by spicyj 10y ago
It's always been Michael and Ryan's project. They wanted to move it back out -- I assume to help promote their training business -- and that seems perfectly fair to me.
- bronson 10y agoThey maintain React Router to help promote their training business? I suppose that could explain its instability.
- spicyj 10y agoNo, that's not why they built it (they built it before starting their business) and I don't believe it's why they maintain it.
- bentlegen 10y agoI just want to point out that whether they built it before or after starting their business doesn't really matter. It's definitely a part of how they promote React Training today (see: moving the project to the ReactTraining GitHub organization, or how many times react-router is mentioned on their marketing website). Not that I have a problem with that; all the more power to them. Especially if it helps support development of these libraries.
- bsimpson 10y agoFurther context: Their org was originally called rackt (a rough portmanteau of Ryan florence and michael jACKson). When Facebook donated the reactjs namespace to the community, they moved it there alongside a bunch of other popular community projects. React Router was the project that taught them React. Since starting it, they decided to quit their day jobs and teach React full-time. rackt (the sandbox of two Internet friends) is now ReactTraining (an actual company). As spicyj said, they probably moved it back to help build brand recognition and use their flagship product to add credibility to their new business.