Facebook 2016 Open-Source Year in Review (Infographic)

Facebook launched 77 new open-source projects in 2016, yielding 60,000 commits and bringing its total to nearly 400 projects and more than 500,000 followers.

Facebook launched 77 new open-source projects in 2016, yielding 60,000 commits and bringing its total to nearly 400 projects and more than 500,000 followers.

Open-source developer advocate Christine Abernathy offered an overview of the social network’s 2016 open-source efforts, as well as the infographic below, in a blog post. Highlights include:

  • The top new Facebook projects in 2016 show the large appetite for React and React Native in the developer community. Both of these projects are fundamentally changing how engineers build user interfaces.
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