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1 post · Jun 2018

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Meta's developer tooling has evolved with the introduction and open-sourcing of Flipper, an extensible cross-platform debugging tool for iOS and Android applications. Flipper builds upon lessons learned from Stetho, offering a more extensible, visually interactive, and cross-platform debugging experience. It allows engineers to inspect view hierarchies (including Litho and ComponentKit), surface GraphQL requests, track performance markers, and debug network traffic and system logs. Flipper's architecture consists of a desktop client (built with Electron, React, Flow, Metro, RSocket, Yarn) and a mobile SDK (using Folly, RSocket), enabling bidirectional communication and custom plugin development for specific use cases. The tool aims to improve developer workflows by providing deeper insights into application structure and behavior.

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  1. Open-sourcing Flipper: a new extensible debugging toolThis post announces the open-sourcing of Flipper, a cross-platform debugging tool for iOS and Android. It details Flipper's architecture, comprising a desktop client and a mobile SDK, and highlights its extensibility through plugins. Key features include view hierarchy inspection, GraphQL request surfacing, performance marker tracking, and network/system log debugging. The post positions Flipper as a successor to Stetho, offering a more visual, interactive, and extensible debugging experience. It also mentions the use of technologies like React, Flow, Metro, RSocket, Yarn, Folly, and native platform languages for development.