Quest for the Holy Grail of Cross-Platform Client Development
summary
Skype pursues a single code base for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux and Web using TypeScript for business logic, React, React Native and Electron, and builds an abstraction layer (react XP) plus native ports to UWP and macOS. Hundreds of open source contributions and an internal fork keep Chromium and React Native usable. Startup time and performance improve via inline requires, V8 and ES6 builds, end-to-end automation, weekly rollouts, anomaly detection and measured wins like React Native on desktop and 50% less CPU usage.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 1:56REBIRTH OF SKYPE
- 3:35HOW
- 6:46MANY OPTIONS TO CHOOSE FROM
- 13:49PERF IS AN UPHILL BATTLE
- 16:18CUTTING THE STARTUP TIME BY 50%
- 18:29LET'S TALK ABOUT DESKTOP
- 20:55CRUEL TRUTH ABOUT VALIDATION
- 21:46DEVOPS FOR AN APP?!
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