Xavier Foucrier
Software Engineer at Studio MOTIO — studiomotio
La Rochelle, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Summary
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RockstarXavier Foucrier is a Software Engineer and Senior Creative Developer from La Rochelle with 12 years of experience blending front-end craftsmanship, motion graphics and UX-driven interactions. As CEO of Studio MOTIO he combines product-minded design with hands-on engineering, shipping robust UI and smooth-scrolling experiences used in notable open-source projects. His contributions to libraries like locomotive-scroll, mojs and barba demonstrate a focus on reliability—fixing subtle bugs, improving core behavior, and adding features for history and transition handling. Comfortable across full-stack and front-end domains, he pairs visual sensibility with code hygiene and test-driven improvements. Notably, he tends to tackle edge cases that improve perceived performance and polish, such as preventing erroneous duration values and refining transition detection.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
caching10
javascript10
animation10
testing10
history10
css10
cachemanager10
webpack10
front-end-development10
webpacker10
management10
spa-template9
s69
svg9
build-automation8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
barbajs/barba
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
Create badass, fluid and smooth transitions between your website’s pages
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 337 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Xavier primarily contributed to the core functionalities and maintenance of the barba.js library. They fixed bugs related to transitions, history management, and cache handling. The user also implemented features such as custom request headers, programmatic history management, and improved the way self-transitions are detected. Furthermore, they improved code syntax and added tests to ensure the library's stability and functionality.
prefetchanimationfluidcssjavascript
mojs/mojs
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
The motion graphics toolbelt for the web
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 7 reviews, 541 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Xavier primarily reverted a change related to converting a `jsdelivr` link to HTTPS in the `index.html` file. Further commits involved discarding vendor and assets. Other commits involved merging changes from the `mojs-contrib` and `patch-1` branches, which included updates to the build process and core files of the project. The user also normalized file formatting regarding editorconfig and made some general refactoring.
motion-graphicsbursttoolbeltjavascriptmojs
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