<story><title>Our First 50,000 Stars</title><url>https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/09/28/our-first-50000-stars.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hellofunk</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not a big fan of Facebook, but I&amp;#x27;ll admit that React was a real game-changer for my own development life. I don&amp;#x27;t use JS any more but all the idioms I learned using it I now adopt to other languages. I heard once that React actually came out of the Instagram team, which Facebook acquired. Regardless of the history, it&amp;#x27;s an amazing tool.</text></comment>
<story><title>Our First 50,000 Stars</title><url>https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/09/28/our-first-50000-stars.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drinchev</author><text>Congratulations, guys.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m being paid right now for working on React project, so it&amp;#x27;s pretty huge impact for my life.&lt;p&gt;Anyway :&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Just three and a half years ago we open sourced a little JavaScript library called React. The journey since that day has been incredibly exciting.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think that it&amp;#x27;s little [1], though.&lt;p&gt;[1] : &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;facebook&amp;#x2F;react&amp;#x2F;tree&amp;#x2F;0.3-stable&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;facebook&amp;#x2F;react&amp;#x2F;tree&amp;#x2F;0.3-stable&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>