The Impact of Facebook's Open Source Program on the Front End Community

A large part of Facebook was just always, you know, from the first day on was built on open source. Back then when React was released, it was definitely not expected to have this huge impact. But once people caught on to how awesome react is, and a lot of other libraries came out around it, Facebook in the front end space was able to build a brand. And then it very easily became this, okay, we're doing open source well; that is going to help us bring awesome engineers into the company.