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React Good First Issues for JavaScript

JavaScript issues that involve React: the project is tagged with it, or the issue itself is about it.

React

Open issues
109k
New this week
1.6k
Nobody on it yet
84.5k
Average difficulty
3.5/5

What this list is like

  • Average annotated difficulty: 3.5/5 across 104,753 issues.
  • 14% of 104,753 time estimates are one day or less.

Updated Oct 25, 2026.

About React

React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces out of components, released by Facebook (now Meta) in 2013. Components describe what the screen should show, and React updates the page when data changes.

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How many React issues are open here?
109,169 open issues: 1,619 opened in the last seven days, and 84,466 with nobody working on them yet. We count them once a day.
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