React’s greatest power may lie in its open source ecosystemChristopher Chedeau wanted to save the web from obsolescence. Chedeau joined Facebook as a front-end developer in 2012, just as the company embarked on a new “mobile-first” approach to development. At first the approach focused on using HTML5 and other web technologies to build mobile apps. “We already had all this expertise on the web, and if we could just put the web in a mobile app, we could wo
