React at scale with Vodafone

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Vodafone has transitioned from isolated teams to a build-to-share approach, creating app starters, app builders, and component libraries. They established standards and a manifesto to align teams on code, synchronization, and tool usage. App skeletons and starters provide standardized code and configurations, while the dynamic journey language and renderer automate UI generation based on JSON configuration. The renderer allows for business logic customization and quick schema creation for API deployment. The Source Web Component Library, built on Vodafone's design system, Source, is used by 350 developers across six markets and sub-brands. It contains 220 components and has had about 27,000 unique downloads. Vodafone's tech stack includes React, TypeScript, and styled components for theming. The My Vodafone app, a primary touchpoint for customers, has evolved to offer personalized features and services across 19 markets. Vodafone uses React Native to standardize and remove legacy code, extending it to native web channels and moving towards progressive web apps. They use a mapping layer to map API responses to components, allowing flexibility for different backends. The app builder ecosystem promotes standardization and faster time-to-market, allowing markets to configure and build their own apps. Vodafone integrates Contentful with their website, bundling content with application code using SourceWeb components. Vodafone Turkey's Marketplace project, built using React-JS and WebView technology, is dynamic with widgets managed through a CMS, and plans to adopt Next.js for server-side rendering and SEO.

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React at scale with Vodafone

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Vodafone operates in 21 countries and has 52 partner markets.

Vodafone plans to increase its software engineering team by about 7,000 people, aiming for a workforce of around 16,000 software engineers by 2025.

The My Vodafone app is Vodafone's primary digital touchpoint for customers, available in 19 markets. It allows customers to self-serve, check bills, make payments, and access other Vodafone services.

Vodafone uses React Native to build applications with a focus on efficiency and standardization. They aim to build components once and reuse them across different markets, reducing duplication and improving development timelines.

Vodafone has adopted React as its common global framework for web development. They are focused on building to share first, using inner source strategies, and adhering to a global web manifesto and development standards.

SourceWeb is Vodafone's global component library built using React and TypeScript. It contains 220 components and is used by about 350 developers across six markets and sub-brands. It aims to standardize UI components for Vodafone's web applications.

Vodafone adheres to a global web manifesto and development standards, including linting rules, testing frameworks like Jest and Cypress, and automated documentation generation to ensure consistent design and code quality.

The App Builder is a low-code development tool that allows Vodafone markets to build, configure, and deploy applications using drag-and-drop UI components and predefined business logic. It aims to speed up time to market and facilitate standardization.

Vodafone uses a micro front-end architecture with Webpack's module federation plugin to allow React and Angular components to coexist. An Angular bridge component is used to load and render React components within the Angular application.

Vodafone Turkey's Marketplace project uses React for a web view integrated into the My Vodafone app. It plans to adopt Next.js for server-side rendering and SEO, and aims to use SourceWeb components for consistent design.

130 min
05 Jul, 2022

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Available in Español: React a gran escala con Vodafone

1. Introduction to Vodafone and React

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Welcome to our workshop about Vodafone and how they use React technologies at scale. Vodafone connects people in 21 countries and 52 partner markets. Our goal is to transform into a tech comms provider with a software engineering workforce of around 16,000 people. We're working collaboratively to be the most efficient team. I'm Jamie Van Hankens, leading the Digital Ventures team. We're here to share our experience of using React at scale, starting with the My Vodafone app. We'll also cover key principles for co-creation and reuse, and there will be a Q&A session and a coffee break.

Good morning, afternoon, or evening, wherever you are in the world, and welcome. We're really excited to join the React summit this year and want to welcome you to our workshop about Vodafone and how they use the React technologies at scale. I thought I would take a minute to share with you some context about Vodafone for those of you who don't know this already.

Vodafone connects people around the world. We're present in 21 countries and 52 partner markets. You may not be used to seeing Vodafone and our brand at events like this but that's certainly something that's going to change and is changing. We have really big ambitions to transform our company into a tech comms provider. Our technology strategy sees us increasing our software engineering team by about 7,000 people by 2025. That means in 2025 we'll have a software engineering workforce of around 16,000 people. All building globally, and reusing across those 21 markets that we operate in. There is one technology team we're working on. We're on a journey to work collaboratively and avoid duplication so that we can be the most efficient team that we can be.

So a little bit about who I am and kind of why I'm launching the workshop. My name is Jamie Van Hankens. I'm leading a new team in Vodafone called Digital Ventures. Whilst the team name doesn't mean a huge amount, we're responsible for employee experience of our software engineers. We're working to implement changes that make it easier for our teams to work together. If you think dev advocacy, you'll be on the right track but our plans are to empower distributed developers to build products and services that are used by all of our customers around the world. Vodafone is really proud to be sponsoring the React summit this year and shortly you'll From our team in this workshop about how we use React technology.

You'll also be able to meet some of our team at the React event later this month in Amsterdam. So we're sending a fairly big group from our engineering teams around the world. Feel free to drop by if you're there to our stand. We'll have the stand there so you can talk to us. You'll be able to meet something called Spot the robot dog which is really cool if you get a chance to see it and much more so we hope to see you there. And then just the last bit in terms of introduction for me around today's workshop. So we're here to share our experience of using React at scale in Vodafone. So our team will introduce you to the My Vodafone app. That's our primary digital touchpoint for customers and we'll show its evolution in Vodafone. We'll also show you some key principles that we apply elsewhere in web to enable co-creation and reuse whilst ensuring kind of best in class UX and efficiency. We've saved some time through the workshop, so for Q and A. So feel free to use the Q and A functionality at any time in Zoom. We'll respond in chat and we'll pick a few questions to answer live with the group when we get to it. You'll be happy to know there's a coffee break about halfway through, so you'll get 10 minutes to refresh and then we'll kind of go into the second part. And then just lastly, if there's anything else that you'd like to know about Vodafone and our software engineering journey, we've got our QR code up on the screen that you can follow the link to and it'll just take you to one of our landing pages so that you can read more about it. I'm also on LinkedIn and so are a number of people on our team so if you'd like to reach out to us directly then, by all means, feel free to. But I think in terms of introduction, that's it. You've probably heard enough from me for now. So I'll hand over to Andrew to take you through the next step.

2. Introduction to My Vodafone App and React Native

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Andrew Ferguson, from the group organization, discusses the My Vodafone app and its transformation using React Native. He also mentions the team from Albania and their focus on progressive web app development. The myVodafone application is a primary touchpoint for customers, offering personalized features and evolving services. Andrew highlights the diverse technology landscape and the need for standardization.

Andrew, over to you. Thanks Jamie OK, let me just get the control of the slides. OK, so my name is Andrew Ferguson. Just following on from what Jamie said, I actually work in what we call the group organisation. So, I've got a global role working across all the different markets that Jamie was talking about. And my team looks at two things. On one side, we've got a role around digital analytics and marketing. On the other the side is all about My Vodafone app. OK, which is what we're going to talk about today in the first section. And then, as we go through the web sections a bit lower down with Pedro and team, you'll probably start to see some synergies between app development and the web development. So, the React Native and the JS story that Pedro and team will cover later. One small apology. Unfortunately, due to personal reasons, the team from Albania couldn't join us today, but they were going to talk a little bit about how we're stepping from React Native development and just pure native development into a more, I suppose, progressive web app type environment. So, taking some of the code we're building on React Native, porting that to a web desktop type experience, and moving to a full progressive web app experience. So, we'll try and pick those things up later through the conference, and other sessions, and we'll try and touch on it as we go through. I'm just going to give you a quick introduction. So, Jamie set the scene around who Vodafone are, where we operate, and some of the drivers. I just wanted to pick up on some of those and talk about, specifically, what is the myVodafone application? Why are we so proud of it? And then step through how myVodafone application's changing from a technology perspective, and equally, how we're starting to use React Native to help us on that journey of transformation to a more efficient, shared, and non-repeated form of development. So in a source, et cetera.

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