Andrey Goncharov

Headless Flipper - embeddable mobile devtools for your CI and beyond

What if you could embed mobile devtools directly into your CI pipeline? Learn how Flipper's headless architecture makes it possible.

Headless Flipper - embeddable mobile devtools for your CI and beyond
#1about 5 minutes

An introduction to the Flipper debugging platform

Flipper is an extensible debugging platform for mobile and web apps that uses a plugin architecture to inspect layout, network, and logs.

#2about 9 minutes

Understanding Flipper's powerful plugin architecture

Flipper's architecture separates device-level plugins from application-specific plugins, allowing developers to write complex UI once and reuse it across platforms.

#3about 4 minutes

Why the original Electron monolith limited Flipper

The original monolithic Electron architecture made remote debugging and CI integration difficult, as the server logic was tightly coupled with the UI.

#4about 9 minutes

Decoupling the UI to create a headless server

By splitting Flipper into a separate server and web-based UI, plugin state was moved to the server to enable headless clients via an API.

#5about 1 minute

A command-line demo of the headless Flipper API

A live demo shows how the headless API allows interaction with an application, like playing a game of tic-tac-toe, directly from the terminal.

#6about 4 minutes

Using headless Flipper for automation at Meta

At Meta, headless Flipper is used in CI/CD pipelines for automated UI validation with designers and for debugging failing end-to-end tests.

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