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React was invented by Jordan Walke, who was working on Facebook Ads at the time. He changed teams to Product Infra to focus on React full-time and we launched a React version of the liking and commenting UI as the first step to using React on the main Facebook website.
By that time, Instagram had joined Facebook and a former Facebook Photos engineer, Pete Hunt, joined the Instagram team and built the first version of Instagram's feed on web using React. Since Instagram's code base was separate from Facebook's, this endeavor required extracting React from Facebook's code base so that Instagram could use it. In this sense, Instagram was the first "external" user of React.
— James Ide (24 Nov, 2015) Medium