News for Developers

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

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...

Open Source 2020

December 14, 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

PyTorch Tutorials Refresh - Behind the Scenes

Hi, I’m Jessica, a Developer Advocate on the Facebook Open Source team. In this blog, I’ll take you behind the scenes to show you how Facebook supports and sustains our open source products - specifically PyTorch, an open source deep learning library. With every new release version, PyTorch pushes out new features, updates existing ones, and adds ...

Artificial Intelligence Open Source

October 7, 2020

Build a Discord Bot with Rust and Serenity

By Joe PreviteDiscord is on the rise in developer communities. And, as we all know, developers love building on top of platforms they use. It’s fun! ...

Open Source Platforms

September 30, 2020

Connecting a web app to your PyTorch model using Amazon SageMaker

Author: Cami WilliamsHello fellow programmers, it is me, Cami Williams, your friendly neighborhood open source Developer Advocate, back at it again with a PyTorch blog post. ...

Artificial Intelligence Open Source

August 3, 2020

Build a Smart Bookmarking Tool with Rust and Rocket

One of my favorite tools that exists internally is our smart bookmarking tool commonly referred to as “bunnylol.” Originally named bunny1 and open sourced, it’s what we use to navigate across all tools, wikis, knowledge bases, and everything else one might use working at Facebook. An example of a bookmark I use often is the cal command. I can type...

Open Source Platforms

June 3, 2020