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How is it that everyone keeps calling it React.js? The name of the library is and has always been React.

• spicyj 10y ago
  To be fair, we do use a Twitter account called @reactjs and had two conferences called React.js Conf. So… yes, but it feels like a losing battle.
• wastedhours 10y ago
  Differentiation with React Native?
• pluma 10y ago
  Because "react" is difficult to search for due to all the "reaction videos" and related nonsense. I agree it's a bit odd to use it in a name like that but more than once I've had to add "js" as a qualifier when trying to google for something React-related. I'd imagine for some people this becomes so reflexive they simply call React "React.js" to avoid ambiguity. Adding or dropping a "js" suffix to library names like that is actually pretty common throughout the entire JS ecosystem. Many library officially call themselves "<name>.js" but then go on referring to themselves without the suffix throughout the documentation and release their packages that way too. I recall something similar in Python where libraries would frequently be called "Py<name>" or "<name>py" and people would sometimes add the "py" affix even when the library didn't actually have one in its name to clarify they mean the Python library of that name rather than something else.
  • Zikes 10y ago
    Similarly, Go/Golang.
• paulddraper 10y ago
  The organizers of React.js Conf don't know that. http://conf.reactjs.com/ http://conf.reactjs.com/