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Бодрый докладчик, демонстрирующий интересный подход к созданию динамического UI на стороне сервера. Это позволяет разгрузить мобильных разработчиков от занятия рутинными задачами — а ведь рутину не любит никто. К тому же ребята использовали несколько библиотек (Litho, GraphQL), которые не так часто освещаются на российских мобильных конфах.

At Zalando, we have a fairly small engineering team behind our flagship mobile app, with a constant stream of great ideas coming from product owners. A three-week release train isn't always fast enough to deploy changes such as UI tweaks, new A/B tests, and partner campaigns. This limitation is exacerbated by the fact that many users don't install app updates immediately.

We first looked at React Native & CodePush as a way to deploy app updates more quickly. Spoiler alert: integrating React Native with an existing app is hard and you can't just wave a magic wand to turn any JavaScript engineer into a mobile developer.

Since last summer, we've been building AppCraft, the internal name for our server-driven UI platform. AppCraft rethinks the traditional mobile-client-meets-REST-API architecture by moving most of the malleable logic to the server, reducing the client to what is essentially a domain-specific browser. This enables rapid iteration on app features by non-technical business people; freeing up our mobile engineering resources for more strategic (and let's face it — more interesting) tasks.

How does this even work? What did we learn along the way? In this talk, Andy will tell you and show you.

Andy Dyer

Talks from 2019 Piter season

AppCraft: Faster than a speeding release train

Andy Dyer