WordPress and Tumblr-owner Automattic has acquired Frontity, a portfolio company and creator of a WordPress site development tool.
Online publishing software producer Automattic has acquired Frontity, a Spain-based WordPress site development tool provider it had previously backed, for an undisclosed amount.
Frontity has built an open-source framework that helps the users of Automattic-owned blogging platform WordPress integrate the React JavaScript library into their own websites.
As a part of Automattic, the Frontity team will focus on contributing to the WordPress open-source project and assist in improving its full site editor Gutenberg.
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