r/reactjs

/r/ReactJS - The Front Page of React

Founded December 2013 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Oct 8

A community for discussing anything related to the React UI framework and its ecosystem. Join the Reactiflux Discord (reactiflux.com) for additional React discussion and help.

Members

514,960

515K

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

4.2

from the last 100 posts, spanning 23.4 days

Comments per post

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no sample yet

Growth · 7d

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not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

+0.4%

+2K members · ≈31d

Published rules

11

1 mention promotion — quoted below

Last post

Oct 8

sampled Oct 8

Distinct posters

90%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Aug 6 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

Member growth

What r/reactjs's rules say about promotion

1 of 11 published rules mentions promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.

  1. Posts must conform to our guidelines

    rule 5 of 11

    If you join this community to take value rather than contribute, the community will quickly react as though you are an intruder. If you have a body of content you'd like to promote, our recommended way of doing so is to be an active and positive member of the subreddit. If someone has a question that you've created an external answer to, we'd love if you share it! Please review the sidebar for a complete list of guidelines.

    Removal reason shown to posters: Content guidelines

The other 10

  • Please be kind and courteous, friendly and professional
  • Harassment will not be tolerated
  • Avoid using an alias or display name that might be offensive
  • Respect that people have differences of opinion
  • Guidelines: Needs code
  • Guidelines: Portfolio Sunday
  • Guidelines: Original works
  • Guidelines: AI
  • Guidelines: Career
  • Guidelines: Commercial activity

Read from r/reactjs’s published rules on Mar 12. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.

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r/reactjs — frequently asked

How many members does r/reactjs have?

r/reactjs has 514,960 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 8. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/reactjs growing?

Over the last ≈31 days r/reactjs changed by +0.4% — a gain of 2K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".

How active is r/reactjs?

Around 4.2 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 23.4 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.

When was r/reactjs created?

r/reactjs was founded in December 2013 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Who posts in r/reactjs?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 90% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 8. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.

Can I promote my product in r/reactjs?

r/reactjs publishes 11 rules and 1 of them addresses promotion. The first, “Posts must conform to our guidelines”, says: If you join this community to take value rather than contribute, the community will quickly react as though you are an intruder. If you have a body of content you'd like to promote, our recommended way of doing so is to… Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.

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