Evaluating Dependencies — Falcor Case Study
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Evaluating Dependencies — Falcor Case StudyA friend passed on a reference to Falcor, a #javascript framework that manages data exchange between a client application and a backend server. It was open-sourced by Netflix and is in current use as a core part of their client applications.He passed it along because he knew my interest (or more likely skepticism) would be piqued by their “One Model Everywhere” claim that“You code the same way no matter where the data is, whether in memory on the client or over the network on the server.One of the deepest principles I reinforced with any developer I worked with was that the distinction between local (fast, reliable, generally synchronous) and remote (slow, error-prone, always asynchronous) was fundamental and grounded in physics. It was one critical (...)
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