Facebook open source at F8 2017
Apr 19, 2017Adam Wolff
Summary
This post announces the open-sourcing of Litho, a declarative UI framework for Android that improves performance by preparing UI components ahead of time and running layout code in background threads. It also details React Fiber, a rewrite of React core enabling sophisticated scheduling of rendering work for improved developer features and future innovation, and Relay Modern, a new version of the GraphQL client framework offering enhanced performance and extensibility. Finally, it introduces React VR for building VR experiences on the web.
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