A slight tangent: I'm not sure I agree with giving Redux all the credit. There was definitely already some momentum going when Redux was first released although

A slight tangent: I'm not sure I agree with giving Redux all the credit. There was definitely already some momentum going when Redux was first released although it certainly acted as a multiplier. It's important to remember that even when Facebook first spoke about Flux there was no Flux library. Facebook's Flux implementation came out very late and even then it pretty much only consisted of the dispatcher. There was no example project to look at so all the "Flux-likes" (of which there were many) tried to look at what FB had presented with an MVC/MVVM mindset and attempt to guess what they meant. This Cambrian explosion of "Flux libraries" (few of which really deserve the title) had mostly fizzled out by the time Dan presented his talk on time travel debugging (i.e. Redux). I guess without Redux the community would have settled on something with a lot more ceremony until Rx gained traction -- we certainly wouldn't have seen libraries like MobX and I'm fairly sure Apollo would have looked quite different. Maybe Relay would have been more popular. That said, your core argument still holds: the React ecosystem, although heavily sponsored by Facebook, is not dependent on Facebook by far. There are alternative engines for JSX that aim to be compatible with React to varying degrees (e.g. Preact and Inferno) and Relay is the only state library out there that's directly tied to Facebook the same way React is. Additionally because it's not a monolothic framework but an ecosystem of libraries, React is more adaptable to change. If React were taken in a direction the community disagrees with and make a hard cut like Angular 2 did, Preact could evolve independently and continue providing compatibility layers for React users. On another tangent: the problem with React/Redux is that neither React nor Redux depend on the other and there are other combinations (like React/MobX or Preact/Redux) that share the same general ecosystem. But I guess the same could be said for early GNU/Linux. I've settled on just talking about "React" the same way I settled on talking about "HTML5" when that became a thing ("Is the new website HTML5?" "Yes, by definition.").