A place for developers to talk about building on Farcaster.

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Current most shippable stack:
Next.js + Radix/Shadcn + Neon

Very happy with this so far and is very close to the underlying. Leveraging each part what its good at and able to eject if I need too.

We stripped everything down and went absolute bare basics. No packages, no frameworks, no dependencies. Highly recommend.

👨‍💻 /uno and /outside, @unofficial

Scary at first but also means you don’t have to preface AI with overhead.

Startup artist seeking inspiration.  Champion of /bcard

Rewriting everything to Golang. Thought about Rust to align with general long term market trends, but already hosted on GCP.

…plain ole JavaScript?  What’s your backend language?

We were starting to hit diminishing returns on flexibility. Tracking vendor changes was a little exhausting. We wanted to know root causes for problems. Barrel imports slowed down the monorepo.

If you have good team work ethic it makes sense, otherwise tradeoffs do make sense.

Having done that in the past I find I appreciate the what the tools are actually doing for me and I am okay with the tradeoffs. Curious what made you go to bare metal?