How can one tell the version of React running at runtime in the browser?

Is there a way to know the runtime version of React in the browser?

React.version is what you are looking for.

It is undocumented though (as far as I know) so it may not be a stable feature (i.e. though unlikely, it may disappear or change in future releases).

Example with React imported as a script

const REACT_VERSION = React.version;

ReactDOM.render(
  <div>React version: {REACT_VERSION}</div>,
  document.getElementById('root')
);

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.1.0/react.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.1.0/react-dom.min.js"></script>

<div id="root"></div>

Example with React imported as a module

import React from 'react';

console.log(React.version);

Obviously, if you import React as a module, it won't be in the global scope. The above code is intended to be bundled with the rest of your app, e.g. using webpack. It will virtually never work if used in a browser's console (it is using bare imports).

This second approach is the recommended one. Most websites will use it. create-react-app does this (it's using webpack behind the scene). In this case, React is encapsulated and is generally not accessible at all outside the bundle (e.g. in a browser's console).

From the command line:

npm view react version
npm view react-native version

With the React Devtools installed you can run this from the browser console:

__REACT_DEVTOOLS_GLOBAL_HOOK__.renderers.forEach(r => console.log(`${r.rendererPackageName}: ${r.version}`))

Which outputs something like:

react-dom: 16.12.0

Open Chrome Dev Tools or equivalent and run require('React').version in the console.

That works on websites like Facebook as well to find out what version they are using.