[caffed]

I am thinking that it's because the React package.json does not have `repository` listed.

https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/package.json

See Redux: https://github.com/reactjs/redux/blob/master/package.json#L3...

[wereHamster]

Let's be honest, unless you use a private NPM registry, "react" means https://www.npmjs.com/package/react. GitHub should use the standard resolution algorithm as employed by npm/yarn (the CLI tools).

[couchand]

That's not the package.json that gets published in the npm react package. This one is what you're looking for:

https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/packages/react...