Facebook Shares Its 2019 Year in Review for Open Source

170 new projects brought its total to 579 active repositories

Facebook said it released 170 new open-source projects in 2019, bringing its total portfolio to 579 active repositories.

Open-source developer advocate Dmitry Vinnik said in a blog post that the social network’s internal engineers contributed more than 82,000 commits in 2019, while some 2,500 external contributors committed over 32,000 changes.

He added that almost 93,000 new people starred Facebook’s open-source projects last year.

Vinnik shared highlights of Facebook’s collaboration efforts in support of open-source projects, including two initiatives in partnership with the Linux Foundation: the GraphQL Foundation and the Presto Foundation.

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