What Facebook's Front End Code Looks Like

You don't have to be a techie to appreciate the artistic qualities of diagrams showing interdependencies between different sets of computer code on Facebook's front end.

You don’t have to be a techie to appreciate the artistic qualities of this diagram showing interdependencies between different sets of computer code on Facebook’s front end.

But if you do understand the computer lingo PHP, then you’ll especially dig this Hackathon project showing how over 10,000 different modules of front-end code depend on one another. Note that a couple of blocks are cut off from the right-hand side of this screenshot that went up on the Facebook Engineering page — the images come from an interactive application that shows details each colored block when you mouse over it.

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