Under the Hood

Most tutorials tell you what to type.
This one tells you what actually happens.

A system-design curriculum written by a frontend developer, for frontend developers — networking and databases from first principles, taught against the real architecture of Fable, a shipped group-expenses app.

The Curriculum

Start at fetch() and dig down to packets and pages.

Fable, Deconstructed

Every decision, every trade-off, every production incident — from a real app in the stores.

How to use this site

  1. Read a lesson.
  2. Answer the self-checks out loud.
  3. Follow one Go-deeper link.
  4. Find it in Fable.