News for Developers

Join us at F8 Refresh on June 2nd

F8 has always brought together an incredible community of people who are building, innovating, and looking for what’s next. And over the last year, our community of developers enabled growth for businesses of all sizes to adapt to a changed world and accelerate their digital transformation. In recognition of this, we want to bring F8 back to its...

2021 2020

March 23, 2021

Reflecting on a year of innovation with our developer and creator ecosystem

As a team committed to enabling growth and innovation, we feel so honored to create opportunities that drive value for global developers and creators - and the projects, businesses and ideas that matter to them. By curating events like hackathons and developer jams, as well as providing access to technical resources and our product teams, we’re...

Augmented Reality Open Source

December 21, 2020

Preparing our partners for iOS 14: Mobile Web Advertising

Updated on April 26, 2021: On Tuesday, April 27, 2021 Facebook will begin rolling out new ad measurement protocols --Apple’s SKAdNetwork API and Facebook’s Aggregated Event Measurement -- following the release of iOS 14.5. Advertisers and partners will then begin to experience the changes described in this blog post. For the latest update visit the...

Business Tools 2020

December 16, 2020

ELI5: Flow - Static Type Checker for JavaScript

This article was written in collaboration with Joe Previte, an Open Source Developer Advocate at Facebook. In this post, we explain Flow, a static type checker for JavaScript, in a way that is super simple to understand (or as it’s commonly known online, ELI5). If you're interested in learning by watching or listening, check out a video about this...

Developer Tools Open Source

December 14, 2020

Upcoming Changes to the Messenger API

April 13, 2021 Update: We are excited to announce that we have restored many of the Messenger API features. Please refer to the developer documentation for the latest details. As part of our efforts to update our messaging products in response to new privacy rules in Europe, we are making changes that will impact some developers and businesses...

Platforms 2020

December 4, 2020

ELI5: Docusaurus - Making Documentation Easy

In this post, we will briefly talk about Docusaurus, a website building tool that makes it easy to develop, maintain and deploy a documentation site. If you prefer to learn about Docusaurus in a short video rather than a blog post, go to the Facebook Open Source YouTube channel to watch another episode of ELI5. ...

Open Source 2020

November 30, 2020

2020 Developer Circles Community Challenge regional winners announced

It’s often said that one of the best ways to learn is to become the teacher. That’s why, for this year’s Developer Circles Community Challenge, we invited developers and creators to put an innovative spin on technical education by creating tutorials that showcase the capabilities of Facebook technologies. Participants created step-by-step written...

Augmented Reality Open Source

November 18, 2020

ELI5: Fresco - Image Management Library for Android

In this post, we explain Fresco, a powerful system for displaying images in Android applications, in a way that is super simple to understand (or as it’s commonly known online, ELI5). 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. ...

Open Source 2020

November 16, 2020

Customer Care and Why It Matters for Businesses

When it comes to running a business, customer care is important. And good customer support starts with good communication. It helps cultivate loyal customers, generates new business and enhances your brand’s reputation. But in today’s world, where there are so many ways to communicate with people, how do you know the best way to reach customers? ...

Platforms 2020

November 13, 2020