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Introducing ComponentKit: Functional and declarative UI on iOS

Mar 25, 2015Natansh Verma, Benjamin Loulier, Dustin Barker
Introducing ComponentKit: Functional and declarative UI on iOS
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This post introduces ComponentKit, a new native Objective-C++ library for iOS that adopts a functional and declarative approach to UI development, inspired by React. It aims to simplify the creation of complex UIs like News Feed by abstracting away imperative coding, improving performance through background layout and intelligent view reuse, and enhancing maintainability and testability. The post also announces the open-sourcing of ComponentKit.

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