History

The project's life, one year at a time, told from the commit record: how activity rose and fell against the project's own baseline, who arrived when, and what was released.

Span
2013 – 2026
14 years
Peak Year
2015
2,656 commits
Releases
73
latest in 2026
2013BIRTHfirst commits

1,412 commits (6.5%) · +155,275 / −93,428 lines · 80 authors

Led by Paul O’Shannessy (320 commits)

First commits: Paul O’Shannessy, Pete Hunt, Thomas Aylott, Sophie Alpert, Jeff Morrison, Ben Newman (+74 more)

Released: v0.4.0

2014STEADY

1,946 commits (8.9%) · +50,861 / −33,701 lines · 248 authors

Led by Paul O’Shannessy (527 commits)

First commits: Jim Sproch, Charles Marsh, Bill Fisher, Ray, Ingvar Stepanyan, Jonas Gebhardt (+205 more)

Released: v0.9.0-rc1, v0.10.0-rc1, v0.11.0-rc1, v0.12.0-rc1

2015PEAKbusiest year

2,656 commits (12.2%) · +140,813 / −68,396 lines · 384 authors

Led by Paul O’Shannessy (700 commits)

First commits: Shim Won, Kohei TAKATA, Sergey Rubanov, Benjamin Woodruff, Jinwoo Oh, Bartosz Kaszubowski (+333 more)

Released: v0.13.0-rc1, v0.13.0-rc2, v0.14.0-beta1, v0.14.0-beta2, v0.14.0-beta3 (+1 more)

2016STEADY

1,874 commits (8.6%) · +169,239 / −125,034 lines · 353 authors

Led by dan (307 commits)

First commits: Brian Vaughn, Keyan Zhang, Brandon Dail, Ivan Zotov, Sam Balana, Andrey Safronov (+299 more)

Released: v15.0.0-rc.1, v15.0.0-rc.2

2017STEADY

1,659 commits (7.6%) · +264,856 / −269,897 lines · 335 authors

Led by dan (447 commits)

First commits: Raphael Amorim, Clement Hoang, Mitermayer Reis, Jack Ford, Soo Jae Hwang, Matteo Vesprini-Heidrich (+278 more)

Released: v16.0.0-alpha.3, v16.0.0-alpha.4, 16.0.0-beta.1, 16.0.0-beta.3, 16.0.0-beta.4 (+10 more)

2018STEADY

1,014 commits (4.7%) · +136,454 / −62,393 lines · 187 authors

Led by dan (265 commits)

First commits: Rauno Freiberg, Alex Taylor, Nicole Levy, Nathan Quarles, Maksim Markelov, Chang Yan (+130 more)

Released: v16.3.0-alpha.0, v16.3.0-alpha.1, v16.3.0-alpha.2, v16.3.0-alpha.3, v16.3.0-rc.0 (+13 more)

2019STEADY

2,134 commits (9.8%) · +311,411 / −167,024 lines · 136 authors

Led by Brian Vaughn (929 commits)

First commits: Luna Ruan, Lucas Cordeiro, Stephanie Ding, Hristo Kanchev, Jessica Franco, Subhan (+87 more)

Released: v16.8.0, v16.8.2, 1.2.5, v16.9.0-alpha.0, v16.9.0 (+5 more)

2020STEADY

1,081 commits (5.0%) · +254,206 / −144,975 lines · 157 authors

Led by dan (191 commits)

First commits: E-Liang Tan, IDrissAitHafid, 6h057, Saikat Guha, Jack Works, inottn (+110 more)

Released: v16.13.0, v0.0.0-experimental-8b155d261, v0.0.0-experimental-aae83a4b9, v0.0.0-d7382b6c4, v0.0.0-experimental-d7382b6c4

2021STEADY

926 commits (4.3%) · +191,062 / −110,995 lines · 105 authors

Led by Brian Vaughn (248 commits)

First commits: salazarm, Konstantin Popov, BIKI DAS, Abhay Gupta, Sota, Samuel Susla (+67 more)

Released: v0.0.0-experimental-27659559e

2022STEADY

987 commits (4.5%) · +128,974 / −111,501 lines · 93 authors

Led by Andrew Clark (153 commits)

First commits: Sathya Gunasekaran, lauren, Josh Story, Mengdi Chen, Tianyu Yao, Robert Balicki (+61 more)

Released: v18.0.0, v18.1.0, v18.2.0

2023STEADY

1,955 commits (9.0%) · +125,285 / −104,609 lines · 77 authors

Led by Joseph Savona (607 commits)

First commits: Ruslan Lesiutin, Ming Ye, Noah Lemen, Mark Erikson, Andrey Lunyov, Jack Pope (+44 more)

2024STEADY

2,173 commits (10.0%) · +611,544 / −158,784 lines · 107 authors

Led by Sebastian Markbåge (332 commits)

First commits: Michael Vitousek, Jordan Brown, Dmytro Rykun, Niklas Mollenhauer, Vitali Zaidman, Edmond Chui (+61 more)

Released: eslint-plugin-react-hooks@5.0.0, v19.0.0

2025STEADY

1,434 commits (6.6%) · +274,631 / −327,712 lines · 97 authors

Led by Sebastian Markbåge (423 commits)

First commits: Jorge Cabiedes, Eugene Choi, michael faith, Nathan, emily8rown, Dawid Małecki (+50 more)

Released: v19.1.0, v19.2.0

2026QUIETwell below the usual pace

506 commits (2.3%) · +234,465 / −92,881 lines · 93 authors

Led by Sebastian "Sebbie" Silbermann (105 commits)

First commits: Minh Vu, Zeya Peng, Will Binns-Smith, The number one sword cultivator in the south of the sky, Lazizbek Ergashev, Jimmy Miller (+55 more)

Released: eslint-plugin-react-hooks@7.1.0, eslint-plugin-react-hooks@7.1.1, react-devtools@8.0.0, v19.3.0