Blog posts tagged 'Front End'
Facebook open source at F8 2017
We announced several new open source projects today that improve app experiences for both users and engineers. Read more...
Open-sourcing Litho, a declarative UI framework for Android
Litho lays out components ahead of time in a background thread, and renders incrementally to deliver best-in-class performance. Read more...
Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible
The new version of Relay is designed from the ground up to be easier to use, more extensible, and optimized for mobile devices. Read more...
Building virtual reality experiences on the web with React VR
Expanding on the declarative programming style of React and React Native, React VR lets anyone with an understanding of JavaScript rapidly build and deploy VR experiences using standard web tools. Read more...
Register now for F8 2017!
Apply now for a spot at Facebook's annual developer conference. Read more...
Facebook Open Source 2016 year in review
Over the past few years, Facebook's Open Source program has grown into one of the largest and most active portfolios in the industry. Read more...
Yoga: A cross-platform layout engine
The open-source layout engine allows product engineers to build layouts quickly for multiple platforms. Read more...
Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations to mobile clients
The open source library is able to export and play back high-quality, lightweight animations, such as the ones seen in Facebook Reactions. Read more...
Yarn: A new package manager for JavaScript
With Yarn, engineers have access to the npm registry while operating faster, more securely, and more reliably. Read more...
Improving CSS quality at Facebook and beyond
Building on top of open source tools helped improve the quality of CSS at Facebook and set the stage for community-wide rules and guidelines. Read more...
Facebook open sources rich text editor framework Draft.js
The new framework makes rich text input more customizable and seamlessly integrates into React applications. Read more...
Why we chose to move to HTML5 video
Moving to HTML5 best enables us to continue to innovate quickly and at scale, given Facebook’s large size and complex needs. Read more...
HIKE: Our quick, simple accessibility primer
Making our products accessible is integral to achieving our mission of connecting the world. Read more...
Relay: Declarative data for React applications
We've been working on a solution to simplify the process of retrieving server data. Read more...
Web performance: Cache efficiency exercise
My team was discussing the parts of facebook.com that are currently uncached, and the question came up: What is the efficiency of the cache since, at Facebook, we release new code twice a day? We were worried that our release process might be negatively impacting our cache performance. Read more...
Flow, a new static type checker for JavaScript
Introducing Flow, a new open-source static type checker for JavaScript. Flow adds static typing to JavaScript to improve developer productivity and code quality. Read more...
@Scale 2014: Recap of Web Track
Facebook started the @Scale conference series as a forum for engineers to share how they solve problems in the real world. It's since evolved and grown to become a community that collaborates in the open in order to innovate further, faster, and more effectively. We saw this firsthand during the web track sessions of @Scale, where companies at all stages of growth — Wikimedia, Twitter, Khan Academy, Google, and Netflix — are pushing the boundaries of what we thought was possible in web development. For many of these teams, they're also contributing those technologies back to the open source community, ensuring that others can learn and benefit from these lessons. Read more...
Under The Hood: Facebook Accessibility
Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. Making our products accessible to people with disabilities is an incredibly important step towards achieving this mission. Read more...
Under the Hood: The JavaScript SDK – Truly Asynchronous Loading
This post is part of a series that looks under the hood of our JavaScript SDK. Read more...
Under the Hood: The JavaScript SDK - The use of polyfills
This installment is a part of a series of posts exploring the internal details of our JavaScript SDK. Our hope is that these posts will help developers debug any issues with our SDK and give us an opportunity to outline some best practices for JavaScript libraries in general. In this post, we're going to drill into how we use polyfills in our SDK. Read more...
Under the Hood: The JavaScript SDK - error handling
For the next few weeks we will be exploring the internal details of our JavaScript SDK in a series of posts. Our hope is that this will help developers debug any issues with our SDK and give us an opportunity to outline some cool best practices for JavaScript libraries. In this post, we're going to drill into how error handling works in our SDK. Read more...
Product engineering at Facebook
Only a few years ago, 10 engineers were responsible for innovating, building and maintaining all of the products (a.k.a. features) on Facebook, including Profiles, Pages, Groups, Messages, Photos, and Events. These people were our first product engineers, a role that is a mix of generalist engineer, product designer, and product manager. Read more...
Optimizing for the MacBook Pro with Retina display
As an intern on the user interface engineering team this summer, I helped build UI components that can be used across Facebook. The last project I completed before I left was to help improve the user experience on Apple's MacBook Pro with Retina display and future high resolution displays. Read more...
Inviting you all to Hackathon
As you might be aware, one of Facebook's oldest and greatest traditions is the Hackathon. Sometimes the best way to find out if an idea is good is to try it out, and that's part of what Hackathon lets us do. Read more...