For nearly 9 years, Julien Verlaguet and the Skiplabs team created the languages and frameworks used by thousands of engineers at Meta to build some of the company’s most widely used features and services.

As Meta grew, Julien saw engineers increasingly used reactivity to build new features that were fast & efficient but could still work within the company’s increasingly complex landscape and requirements.

Building upon ideas from React and GraphQL, the Skiplabs team developed a new framework that made it easy for Meta engineers to build new reactive programs.

Seeing there were no similar frameworks available outside of Meta, Julien and the team founded Skiplabs to bring reactivity to the next million software engineers.