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Sophie was the best thing to happen to React. She lead React’s adoption at the first company outside of Facebook, and single-handedly answered almost every question about React on stackoverflow for the first two years of its existence. She was the number one github contributor to and bug-fixer for React before she joined Facebook.

React as we think of it today simply would not exist without Sophie. The entire front-end ecosystem would be drastically worse.

It’s really sad to hear she won’t be leading the react team anymore, and worse to hear how some employees of Facebook treated her.

She’s hands down the best engineer I’ve ever worked with, and also a wonderfully kind and caring person.

Her leaving Facebook is a loss for the entire tech community. I hope her next endeavours treat her with the respect she deserves.