The semantics of React is that anything outside of Suspense boundaries in a transition doesn't display until it has fully unsuspended. With SSR streaming the intention is to preserve that. We explicitly don't want to support the mode of document streaming normally supported by the browser where it can paint content as tags stream in since that leads to content popping in and thrashing in unpredictable ways. This should instead be modeled explictly by nested Suspense boundaries or something like SuspenseList. After the first shell any nested Suspense boundaries are only revealed, by script, once they're fully streamed in to the next boundary. So this is already the case there. However, for the initial shell we have been at the mercy of browser heuristics for how long it decides to stream before the first paint. Chromium now has [an API explicitly for this use case](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transition_API/Using#stabilizing_page_state_to_make_cross-document_transitions_consistent) that lets us model the semantics that we want. This is always important but especially so with MPA View Transitions. After this a simple document looks like this: ```html <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render"/> </head> <body> <p>hello world</p> <script src="bootstrap.js" id="«R»" async=""></script> ... </body> </html> ``` The `rel="expect"` tag indicates that we want to wait to paint until we have streamed far enough to be able to paint the id `"«R»"` which indicates the shell. Ideally this `id` would be assigned to the root most HTML element in the body. However, this is tricky in our implementation because there can be multiple and we can render them out of order. So instead, we assign the id to the first bootstrap script if there is one since these are always added to the end of the shell. If there isn't a bootstrap script then we emit an empty `<template id="«R»"></template>` instead as a marker. Since we currently put as much as possible in the shell if it's loaded by the time we render, this can have some negative effects for very large documents. We should instead apply the heuristic where very large Suspense boundaries get outlined outside the shell even if they're immediately available. This means that even prerenders can end up with script tags. We only emit the `rel="expect"` if you're rendering a whole document. I.e. if you rendered either a `<html>` or `<head>` tag. If you're rendering a partial document, then we don't really know where the streaming parts are anyway and can't provide such guarantees. This does apply whether you're streaming or not because we still want to block rendering until the end, but in practice any serialized state that needs hydrate should still be embedded after the completion id.
React ·

React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
- Declarative: React makes it painless to create interactive UIs. Design simple views for each state in your application, and React will efficiently update and render just the right components when your data changes. Declarative views make your code more predictable, simpler to understand, and easier to debug.
- Component-Based: Build encapsulated components that manage their own state, then compose them to make complex UIs. Since component logic is written in JavaScript instead of templates, you can easily pass rich data through your app and keep the state out of the DOM.
- Learn Once, Write Anywhere: We don't make assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, so you can develop new features in React without rewriting existing code. React can also render on the server using Node and power mobile apps using React Native.
Learn how to use React in your project.
Installation
React has been designed for gradual adoption from the start, and you can use as little or as much React as you need:
- Use Quick Start to get a taste of React.
- Add React to an Existing Project to use as little or as much React as you need.
- Create a New React App if you're looking for a powerful JavaScript toolchain.
Documentation
You can find the React documentation on the website.
Check out the Getting Started page for a quick overview.
The documentation is divided into several sections:
- Quick Start
- Tutorial
- Thinking in React
- Installation
- Describing the UI
- Adding Interactivity
- Managing State
- Advanced Guides
- API Reference
- Where to Get Support
- Contributing Guide
You can improve it by sending pull requests to this repository.
Examples
We have several examples on the website. Here is the first one to get you started:
import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client';
function HelloMessage({ name }) {
return <div>Hello {name}</div>;
}
const root = createRoot(document.getElementById('container'));
root.render(<HelloMessage name="Taylor" />);
This example will render "Hello Taylor" into a container on the page.
You'll notice that we used an HTML-like syntax; we call it JSX. JSX is not required to use React, but it makes code more readable, and writing it feels like writing HTML.
Contributing
The main purpose of this repository is to continue evolving React core, making it faster and easier to use. Development of React happens in the open on GitHub, and we are grateful to the community for contributing bugfixes and improvements. Read below to learn how you can take part in improving React.
Code of Conduct
Facebook has adopted a Code of Conduct that we expect project participants to adhere to. Please read the full text so that you can understand what actions will and will not be tolerated.
Contributing Guide
Read our contributing guide to learn about our development process, how to propose bugfixes and improvements, and how to build and test your changes to React.
Good First Issues
To help you get your feet wet and get you familiar with our contribution process, we have a list of good first issues that contain bugs that have a relatively limited scope. This is a great place to get started.
License
React is MIT licensed.