Introducing the React Foundation
Key Points
- React & React Native move to React Foundation
- Independent technical governance to be defined
- Foundation will manage infra, trademarks, and grants
Summary
Meta is moving React and React Native to a newly created React Foundation and will introduce an independent technical governance model. The Foundation will be a vendor-neutral home for React, responsible for repositories, CI, trademarks, events (React Conf), and programs to fund and support the ecosystem. A board of directors will govern the Foundation with Seth Webster as executive director; founding corporate members include Amazon, Callstack, Expo, Meta, Microsoft, Software Mansion, and Vercel. The technical governance structure will be defined separately with community input and detailed in a future post.
Key Points
- Move: React and React Native will transition from Meta to the React Foundation.
- Foundation responsibilities:
- Maintain GitHub repositories, CI, infrastructure, and trademarks.
- Organize React Conf and run ecosystem initiatives (grants, financial support, programs).
- Governance:
- Foundation governed by a board; Seth Webster named executive director.
- Technical governance will be independent from the Foundation to avoid single-organization dominance.
- Community feedback will be solicited to finalize the technical governance model.
- Founding members: Amazon, Callstack, Expo, Meta, Microsoft, Software Mansion, Vercel.
- Next steps for engineers: expect repo/ownership transitions, CI/trademark updates, and a future RFC/post describing the technical governance and contribution processes.