Facebook details its 2016 open source accomplishments
"We build tools that enable engineers to work more easily across platforms, automate testing to catch problems sooner, and help improve the overall performance of our products," wrote Christine Abernathy, a developer advocate with Facebook's open source team, in a blog post. "We know from experience that collaborating with the open source community surfaces new ideas and solutions to the challenges that we face."
During the first half of 2016, Facebook launched more than a dozen open-source projects that garnered more than 500 followers (or contributors) each, according to the company. "So far this year, our number of followers has increased by 35 percent and we've seen a nearly 50 percent rise in total forks,” Abernathy wrote.
To showcase the company's momentum, Abernathy highlighted a trio of new open-source projects: Draft.js, ReDex and Memory Bundle.
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Facebook is also pursuing open-source projects in industries that operate outside traditional developer platforms, such as AI, where the company released scripts for image recognition and a modular collection of boilerplate code.
Facebook plans to provide further updates for engineers on its open-source plans at the @Scale conference next month. And more information on is available on Facebook's GitHub page and its site dedicated to all things code.