# reactjs/react-future

Specs & docs for potential future and experimental React APIs and JavaScript syntax.

Repository: https://github.com/reactjs/react-future
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-future
Language: JavaScript
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-03-25T08:58:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4502, "days_push": 1622, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2804, forks 103 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:22.747139+00:00)

## What it is
A historical repository from the React team showcasing speculative example code and discussion documents for potential future React APIs and hypothetical future JavaScript syntax. It served as a platform for debating proposals like classes, stateless functions, inline styles, and worker-based rendering, many of which later influenced React's actual evolution.

## Use cases
- study how React's class components and stateless functions were originally proposed
- understand the design history behind React APIs like refs and inline styles
- research early React team thinking on future JavaScript syntax
- find example code for experimental React API proposals
- trace the origins of ideas that became modern React features

## When to choose
- you are researching the history and evolution of React's API design
- you want to see how proposals like stateless functional components originated
- you are writing about React's development process or design philosophy

## When to avoid
- you want current, supported React APIs or documentation
- you need a runnable library or framework
- you expect maintained or up-to-date proposals - the repo is inactive and its ideas have largely been resolved

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: abandoned
- function: documentation, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, programming-languages, tutorials
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: react, rfc, proposals, javascript-syntax, historical, design-docs, nodejs

## Member repositories
- reactjs/react-future (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:22.747139+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:14:30.598677+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/reactjs/react-future (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:22.747139+00:00, sha 77df8a01793b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.