Facebook created React.js in 2011 for their own use. As you know, Facebook is one of the biggest Social Networking websites in the world today.
In 2012, Instagram also started using it, which is a subsidiary of Facebook.
In 2013, Facebook made React.js open-sourced. Initially, the developer community rejected it because it used Markup and JavaScript in a single file. But as more people experimented with it, they started embracing the component-centric approach for separating concerns.
When I first start studied react, I felt the concept are similar to what we had in javascript but somehow it's not the same. The same patter also happened when we later get into practice code challenge, with some example I can finish the coding and make it compiles. But I don't feel the happiness of making it because I don't fully understand why it works. Only after working on greglist, plantsy and some other mock challenge it became clear to me.
But I want to recommend because React is remarkably flexible. Once you have learned it, you can use it on a vast variety of platforms to build quality user interfaces. React is a library, NOT a framework. '
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Since I started using React its hard for me to use another JavaScript framework as much. I'm obsessed with it.