A place for developers to talk about building on Farcaster.

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putting the team over the individual.
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eng @ base

@myk what full stack have you been using for miniapps? We chatted about libraries, but what about backend/database and where are you hosting?

for most users, if you send funds to the custody address, they will never know about it and never be able to use it

so a service provider imitating that as a verified address doesnt work and harms more developers than it helps. a developer can individually choose to treat it as a verified address but at least they know what they are doing in that case

I like next.js because you get the frontend and backend out of the box and minikit defaults to next in the quickstart which is nice.

As far as a backend, Base is cheap enough to do most of everything that I need onchain and so I try to keep things as onchain as possible. This can be a bit difficult for miniapps because people have different verified wallets associated with their farcaster account. There is also FID marketplaces where people can buy low FIDs so its possible someone's FID could change (but I don't account for that in my apps).
More context: https://warpcast.com/rish/0x9dbea90a

In instances where it doesn't make sense to use the blockchain as a backend, I reach for the T3 stack and use TRPC procedures in my next app that talks to a sql db with an ORM like prisma.