Posts from Engineering: javascript

Celebrating over a year of @FlightJS

FlightJS is an evolving JavaScript framework project. See what’s happened since we initially open-sourced it over a year ago.Read more…

Bootstrap 3.0

We are thrilled to see the Bootstrap community announce the 3.0 release:Read more…

Twitter Typeahead.js: You Autocomplete Me

Twitter typeahead.js is a fast and battle-tested jQuery plugin for auto completion. Today we’re open sourcing the code on GitHub under the MIT license. By sharing a piece of our infrastructure with the open source community, we hope to evolve typeahead.js further with community input.Read more…

Introducing Flight: a web application framework

Last year we rolled out a major reimplementation of the Twitter website. In addition to shifting the rendering of our page content to the server (which achieved significant performance gains), we re-envisioned the entire client-side infrastructure with a clean, robust and easy-to-learn framework which we call Flight.Read more…

Implementing pushState for twitter.com

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As part of our continuing effort to improve the performance of twitter.com, we’ve recently implemented pushState. With this change, users experience a perceivable decrease in latency when navigating between sections of twitter.com; in some cases near zero latency, as we’re now caching responses on the client.Read more…