Building Auto Trader's SDUI platform

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Auto Trader builds a server-driven UI platform called composable that serves JSON schemas from a Spring Boot front end and shares Kotlin data models across Android, iOS and web. Versioning lives on the server and component-level renderers support multiple API levels; the system reaches version 12 and supports dynamic forms by shipping JavaScript logic and stores generated from Kotlin Multiplatform. Results: client parity, a jump from ~12 to ~32 engineers on the product, 50+ contributors, and much faster feature rollout without full rewrites.

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1. 0:00Server-driven UI at Auto Trader
2. 2:15Why we built our own server-driven UI framework
3. 8:40Designing Composable framework
4. 16:45Versioning in server-driven UI
5. 19:32Kotlin DSL for UI
6. 21:59Dynamic UI and form handling
7. 28:09SDUI retrospective after 4 years
8. 35:09Future plans for Composable
9. 36:14Q&A

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