Headless Flipper - embeddable mobile devtools for your CI and beyond
summary
Flipper splits into a stateful Node.js server and a standalone React UI so CI, remote dev clouds and other programs can control devices over websockets. A new Flipper Server Companion hosts plugins and exposes a headless RPC API so non-JS clients call plugin methods. Demo shows a decapitated Tic‑Tac‑Toe plugin played from both the browser UI and a terminal headless client. Production uses include a CLI-triggered screenshot design verification pipeline and early E2E test debugging next to device clouds.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to Flipper
- 1:24What Flipper is today
- 11:03Flipper’s architecture changes
- 15:40Headless Flipper concept
- 21:31Plugin API for headless mode
- 26:12Headless demo Tic-Tac-Toe
- 27:36Flipper at Meta integrations
- 32:18Q&A and resources
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