--- title: React's creator leaves Facebook | daily.dev description: React's original creator, Jordan Walke, has left Facebook. This comes after ten years with the company where he put an indelible stamp on both React and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/react-s-creator-leaves-facebook-ogeilyboz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: React's creator leaves Facebook | daily.dev og:description: React's original creator, Jordan Walke, has left Facebook. This comes after ten years with the company where he put an indelible stamp on both React and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/react-s-creator-leaves-facebook-ogeilyboz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/oGeILyboZ.png og:image:alt: React's creator leaves Facebook og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # React's creator leaves Facebook **[React Status](https://daily.dev/sources/reactstatus)** · 4 min read · 32 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary React's original creator, Jordan Walke, has left Facebook. This comes after ten years with the company where he put an indelible stamp on both React and Reason. In announcing his departure he simply said he is “starting a new company” but also goes to say that he will also be investing in startups in the React/Reason ecosystems. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@idoshamun** · 1 upvotes > Dramatic move indeed. Let's see what the future holds **@davik4life** · 1 upvotes > Awesome! I can't wait to see what he comes up with! It's gonna be a bomb! **@berkmann18** · 0 upvotes > I wonder what React (and ReasonML) will become and what the road ahead for their users will look like. --- Tags: [#tech-news](https://daily.dev/tags/tech-news), [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react), [#startup](https://daily.dev/tags/startup) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/react-s-creator-leaves-facebook-ogeilyboz) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"React's creator leaves Facebook","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/react-s-creator-leaves-facebook-ogeilyboz","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/react-s-creator-leaves-facebook-ogeilyboz"},"datePublished":"2021-01-13T17:44:32.283Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"React's original creator, Jordan Walke, has left Facebook. 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