News for Developers

F8 Refresh: It's All About Developers

F8 began as an 8-hour developer hackathon in 2007 (the ‘8’ came from our traditional eight-hour hackathons). Over the years, we added new industry tracks and introduced iconic Facebook consumer products. But as the event evolved, we heard from an increasing number of developers who wanted us to share the technical content that would help them...

F8 2021

June 2, 2021

Introducing Login Connect with Messenger

Our flagship developer product — Facebook Login — offers a convenient way for Facebook’s billions of global users to log into thousands of apps and websites. We created this product 12 years ago and it’s been amazing to see the convenience it creates for people around the world. Developers have tapped into the rich personalization that Facebook...

Platforms F8

June 2, 2021

WebXR: A Contributor’s Story with Soham Parekh

The “Contributor’s Story” series is intended to provide a face and voice to our major open source contributors and community members, an overview of the projects they are working on, and the successes and challenges contributors face when developing. ...

Open Source 2021

June 1, 2021

Docusaurus: A Contributor’s Story with Steven Hansel

Open Source 2021

May 25, 2021

ELI5: Folly - Battle-Tested C++ Library

In this blog post, we explore a popular open source project called Folly, a C++ library that provides core components used extensively at Facebook. We cover this open source project using the ELI5 style of explaining things in simple terms in the shortest amount of time. If you prefer to learn by watching, we also have an accompanying video about...

Open Source 2021

May 24, 2021

Pysa: A Contributor’s Story with Grace Gao

Open Source 2021

May 18, 2021

Meet the Rustaceans: Pedro Rittner

This article was written in collaboration with Pedro Rittner, a Production Engineer at Facebook. For today’s interview, we have Pedro Rittner who is a Production Engineer on the Device Integration, Assessment, and Grokking team at Facebook. The Device Integration, Assessment and Grokking team develops core hardware tooling and automation frameworks...

Open Source 2021

May 13, 2021

Docusaurus: A Contributor’s Story with Samuel Adjei

Open Source 2021

May 11, 2021

ELI5: Pyre - Fast Error Flagging for Large Python Codebases

In this blog post, we explain Pyre, a performant type-checker for Python 3, in a way that is super simple to understand. If you're interested in learning by watching or listening, check out a video about this open source project on our Facebook Open Source YouTube channel. Why Pyre? We love using Python at Facebook and Instagram, but when working...

Open Source 2021

May 10, 2021