Valdi is a cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance without sacrificing developer velocity. - Snapchat/Valdi

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Valdi is an open-source cross-platform UI framework from Snapchat that compiles TypeScript components directly to native iOS, Android, and macOS views without web views or JavaScript bridges. Battle-tested in Snap's production apps for 8 years, it features automatic view recycling, instant hot reload, full VSCode debugging, and flexible integration with existing native codebases. The framework includes a C++ layout engine, worker thread support, native animations, and type-safe bindings between TypeScript and platform-specific code.

Snapchat/Valdi: Valdi is a cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance without sacrificing developer velocity.

What behind “true performance without sacrificing dev performance” ?
Flutter already there since 2015 targeting that promise with so many showcase examples and lot of maturity now…

Interesting. Curious to see how it performs against other frameworks

Pretty cool, a battle tested solution is what the market for cross-platform ui frameworks need, even if this don’t get much usage as open source, many other frameworks may have something to learn from it

This looks cool, writing code once and shipping to multiple platforms is the dream.
It’ll be interesting to see where this goes and what type of adoption it gets.

Looking forward some use cases and examples.
Should be an interesting framework