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How “react” trended on Hacker News

“React” was mentioned 219,212 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2023 with 2,357 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “react” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “react”

1. 1.Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js 2,280 points · 498 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe 1,703 points · 655 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Build Your Own React 1,478 points · 108 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web 1,216 points · 345 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
5. 5.React Native is now open source 1,039 points · 287 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Explaining React's license 978 points · 595 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
7. 7.React 16 914 points · 338 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
8. 8.React Native for Android 907 points · 240 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework 851 points · 406 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Painting with Code: Introducing our new open source library React Sketch.app 787 points · 95 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Create React Apps with No Configuration 777 points · 241 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button 756 points · 568 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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