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Re:Comparing Svelte and React by acoard on Thursday March 25, 2021 @11:21AM (#26581358)
>Yes, both of the creators now work on the React team (Dan Abramov and Andrew Clark), but it's always been an independent OSS project, and is currently maintained by myself and Tim Dorr.

The source I have says that Dan Abramov created Redux while working at Facebook on React[0]. So while Redux has never been under the official governance of FB, it was created by FB employees for a FB project (React) while in parallel working on that project.

[0] https://golden.com/wiki/Dan_Abramov_(software_engineer)-99B8...

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Re:Comparing Svelte and React by acemarke on Thursday March 25, 2021 @12:11PM (#26582023)
That's wrong. Dan created Redux while he was actually unemployed. I'd have to check the exact timeline, but I believe he left Stampsy in late 2014 or early 2015, and was actually getting some funding from an OSS collective-type thing while he developed Redux in preparation for React Europe.

Redux was developed in June/July 2015, and demoed at React Europe on July 5, 2015 [0].

Redux 1.0 was released on Aug 14, 2015 [1].

Per the tweet linked from that page [2], Dan didn't join Facebook until November 2015, well after Redux had been released.

So, he most definitely was _not_ working at FB when he developed Redux.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSnOQynTHs

[1] https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/releases/tag/v1.0.0

[2] https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/671135846830075904

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