Skip makes your backend reactive
So you can ship better features faster
From the creators of the Hack and Skip programming languages at Meta
Reactivity makes your features real time
Reactivity makes your features real time
Skip provides a simple, comprehensive abstraction for building real-time features that are efficient and debuggable
Real-time features
Client app
Backend service
Introduction
What is Skip?
Clients
Application logic
Skip runtime
External services
Skip is an open-source framework first developed at Meta that makes it easy for engineers to build reactive backend systems.
Features
Open source
100% MIT licensed
Real-time
Generate simple, reliable real-time API's for web & mobile clients
Simple
No async complexity
Familiar
JSON & TypeScript
Flexible
Work with batch data, streaming data or mix of the two
Resilient
Transparent state management and failure handling
Lightweight
Runs locally with no server to manage
Reusable
Reuse the services you build with mirroring
Overview
How does Skip work?
- Import services, streams, and databases as collections
- Write simple TypeScript map functions against collections
- Compose more complex logic with reuse
- Clients subscribe to real-time updates over http
Stories from our community
React has dramatically simplified the way we write front-end code by coming up with a different way to deal with state updates. Skip is finally doing the same for the backend!
Christopher Chedeau (Vjeux)Principal Software Engineer at Meta
co-creator of React Native and Prettier
- Skip is like streaming without the streams!
Armand JoulinResearch Director at Google
lead of Gemma AI models
Skip roadmap, What’s next
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