Netflix details its Javascript library named Falcor

Netflix has only been around since 1999, but today accounts for nearly 35% of Internet traffic in the U.S. with a whopping 43 million subscribers. Even wonder how Netflix manages to stream so much content like it’s magic? You can thank Falcor for that. No, not the lovable dragon companion from the 1983 movie Neverending Story, but the Javascript library that Netflix named after him. Designed to effortlessly deliver cloud content to your local storage for a seamless video-watching experience, Falcor is now used for delivering video content for all Netflix-compatible platforms.

Falcor Magic

Developers looking to use some of Netflix’s magic were teased with a developer preview back in August. In a blog post, Netflix now describes its implementation of Falcor for Android. If you’re interested in using the Falcor Javascript library in your application to better deliver your cloud content, Netflix has provided some starter guides that could prove useful. If you’re thinking why you should implement Falcor to handle your backend data, Netflix also has an answer for that. Keep in mind that Falcor may not be suited for variable data sets, as detailed by Modus Create, which means you may not want to implement it if your cloud platform relies on user collaboration that sends data back to the cloud rather than serving static data to an individual user. Nevertheless, the Falcor Javascript library is fantastic at what it’s designed for, and it’s hard to argue with its efficiency considering the hugely successful streaming platform that Netflix has built.

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