Revolutionizing Cache Invalidation with Skips Incremental Compute Engine

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Streaming, simplified.

Skip turns declarative logic into streaming. You define your views once and Skip’s incremental compute engine automatically keeps it live, fresh and correct.

From the creators of the Hack and Skip programming languages at Meta

Introduction

How Skip works

Clients

[frontend or backend]


Application logic

[Node.js or Bun]


Skip runtime


External resource manager

Ext.ernal services


Skip is an open source framework first developed at Meta to build & run services where state updates incrementally.

Where to use Skip

Real-time features

Real-time features

Skip lets you build real-time features without the complexity of programming streams or the cost of excessive recomputing.

It has a declarative point-in-time programming model that removes the challenges of programming streams.

Its incremental runtime only triggers recomputation for the data that has changed.

Reactivity powers real time

Client app


Backend service


Features

Real-time

Generate simple, reliable real-time API's for web & mobile clients

Flexible

Work with batch data, streaming data or mix of the two

Resilient

Transparent state management and failure handling

Lightweight

Runs locally with no server to manage

Reusable

Reuse the services you build with mirroring

Stories from our community

  • React has dramatically simplified the way we write front-end code by coming up with a different way to deal with state updates. Skip is finally doing the same for the backend!

    Christopher Chedeau (Vjeux)

  • Skip is like streaming without the streams!

  • Reactive programming done right!

Skip roadmap,

What’s next

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