The Silver Bullet That Wasn’t - the story of Hubs

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A component-driven, cross‑platform UI system uses a backend-driven JSON schema to render native widgets via a core hubs adapter + hubs config on Android and a once-blackbox iOS implementation, powering browse and home pages with features that are only a few hundred lines of client code. Adoption grows from 2 to ~10 maintainers, iOS is open sourced in 2016 then deprecated in 2018, a large iOS rewrite removes half the codebase, and the framework survives only where structured lists fit well.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Hubs
2. 3:59Building the dream
3. 10:41Adopting and regretting
4. 15:14Rethinking and rewriting
5. 25:48Using it wisely
6. 33:39Embrace the hype curve

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