That's not true, see for example initial announcement on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5789055 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5789055 React di

That's not true, see for example initial announcement on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5789055 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5789055 React didn't get much adoption initially and FB didn't spend money on marketing their framework, like Google did with Angular. Developers started using React to speed-up table rendering in Angular application, and only after some performance-related blogposts adoption started to grow.