Michael Jackson (software developer)

According to his personal website, in 2007 he developed Shadowbox.js, a lightbox component for displaying photos and video on web pages that was widely used in the late 2000s.⁠[1]

In 2014, he and Ryan Florence co-created and released React Router, a routing library for React; the Remix team later said the project had been developed under the two men’s oversight for more than ten years, and by October 2022 it had been installed one billion times.⁠[1][2][3]

In 2015, he and Ryan Florence began helping engineering teams adopt React under the name React Training; according to his personal website, he co-founded this training company.⁠[4][1]

The same year, he launched UNPKG, a content delivery network that serves any file in an npm package by URL, which the site identifies as his open-source project; according to his personal website, he also wrote the JavaScript library history and the assertion library expect, the latter later donated to Jest.⁠[1][5]

A former Twitter engineer, he co-founded Remix Software with Ryan Florence in 2020 to build the web framework Remix, initially offering a preview to supporters.⁠[6][1][4]

On October 11, 2021, he and Ryan Florence announced that Remix had raised a $3 million seed round led by OSS Capital, with participation from Naval RavikantNaval RavikantNaval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and angel investor and a co-founder of AngelList. Early on he co-founded the review site Epinions; he and Babak Nivi later grew AngelList out of the startup-fundraising blog Venture Hacks, and he co-founded the cryptocurrency hedge fund MetaStable Capital and Spearhead, which backs founders to make angel investments. His views on startups and life were compiled into the book The Almanack of Naval Ravikant.Open the full entry, Ram Shriram and Sahil Lavingia, and that they planned to open-source Remix under the MIT license.⁠[4]

On October 31, 2022, Remix and Shopify announced that Shopify had acquired Remix, without disclosing financial terms; in a post on the Remix blog, he wrote that the project would continue to be developed in the open with Shopify’s backing.⁠[6][2]

On May 28, 2025, he and Ryan Florence wrote that Remix v2’s functionality had been folded into React Router v7, and announced that Remix 3 would be redesigned as a modular toolkit aiming to avoid critical dependencies, including React; in June of that year, React Router moved to an open governance model.⁠[7][3]

At Remix Jam 2025, he and Ryan Florence jointly introduced Remix 3, which would no longer be built on React, and he gave a separate talk on its server-side pieces; according to the event recap, most of what he showed was already open source and published on npm.⁠[8]

On August 31, 2026, the Remix team published the first release candidate of Remix 3, positioning it as a full-stack JavaScript framework built on web primitives and shipped as a single dependency, with the full release planned for October 2 at Remix Jam; according to his personal website, Remix 3 shipped in 2026.⁠[9][1]

According to his personal website, he currently leads the Remix project at Shopify; his GitHub profile lists Shopify as his company.⁠[1][10]

Remix Software: Official website: https://remix.run/ (opens in a new window)⁠[10][2]

Personal website: Public link: https://mjackson.me/ (opens in a new window)⁠[1]

X: Public account: https://x.com/mjackson (opens in a new window)⁠[1][10]

GitHub: Public account: https://github.com/mjackson (opens in a new window)⁠[1]