Presentation: Building and Scaling UI Systems for Internal Tools at Meta
Cindy Zhang discusses the evolution of XDS, a unified UI system powering 10,000+ internal tools. She shares actionable insights for architects and engineering leaders on managing large-scale community contributions, executing safe monorepo refactors using JS AST and AI codemods, mitigating breaking changes via feature flags, and expanding UI libraries into full-stack platform systems. By Cindy Zhang
The proliferation of internal tools in large organizations like Meta necessitates sophisticated UI system management to maintain efficiency and developer velocity.
This presentation provides practical, actionable insights on scaling UI systems, mitigating breaking changes, and evolving internal platforms, which are critical challenges for large enterprises.
Best practices for managing large-scale UI systems, particularly within monorepos and with AI-assisted refactoring, are being refined and disseminated.
- · Large enterprises with complex internal tooling
- · Front-end architects and engineering leaders
- · Developers of internal UI frameworks
- · Companies with chaotic or unmanaged internal tool development
- · Legacy UI systems resistant to modern practices
Improved efficiency and consistency in software development within large tech companies due to better UI system management.
Increased adoption of AI codemods and advanced refactoring techniques across the industry for maintaining large codebases.
The emergence of new tools and professional services specializing in large-scale UI system governance and migration.
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