31: Intentional Architecture with Yuan and Dustin

“What’s Facebook’s mobile architecture?” is a question we hear often. Instead of top-down MVC, MVW or MVVM, Facebook delegates the responsibility of choosing the right architectural patterns down to the engineers working on products.

This episode's guests Yuan and Dustin pick up where Fabio left us in episode 28 and explain how the Product Foundation org builds abstractions that give engineers autonomy when they want and constraints for features to work cross-app when they need it.

Links:

• IFBM 14 - Facebook iOS UI Infrastructure with Adam: https://pca.st/0qu2
• IFBM 28: Modularising iOS Apps with Fabio: https://pca.st/episode/be165e38-74f3-449f-889a-eab14316c6ed
• Codemod: https://github.com/facebookarchive/codemod
• Fastmod: https://github.com/facebookincubator/fastmod
• ComponentKit: https://componentkit.org/
• Litho: https://fblitho.com/
• React Native: https://reactnative.dev/

Timestamps:

• Intro 0:06
• Guest introductions 2:19
• App Architecture 6:49
• Codemodding 31:18
• Shared Architectural Concepts 33:06
• Building for Newsfeed 34:59
• Scrolling Lists 41:41
• Outro 55:43
• Bloopers 56:36