fc-updates

A brand new docs site to learn about building miniapps: 

- Explains many parts of miniapps clearly and in detail 
- AI-friendly and can easily be loaded into ChatGPT for querying 

This is our first draft, we have lots more work to do to make this a great site. Feedback appreciated! 

https://miniapps.farcaster.xyz/

user request: call ready() as soon as possible cause apps are taking too long to load.

- avoid platforms that have cold start issues like vercel, lambda or fly (or use workarounds)

- use a cdn

- to avoid jitter and content reflowing use placeholders and skeleton states.

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you can configure it or workaround it but most don’t.

You won’t have cold start on lambda if you pay for provisioned concurrency 🤡

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Splash screen useful while your code downloads, much better than a generic loader.

It’s a balance. I think you should take all the easy optimizations (cdn, small bundle, code splitting, no cold starts etc) that are mostly free nowadays and then if thats still slow see what can be done lazily with psychological solutions like skeleton ui that distract and prevent jitter

If you can go from tap to viewing everything in < 350ms, prob better to load it all.

Isn’t the idea behind this to only show the app when it’s fully ready? Might as well scrap the call and just ask apps to pre render a good skeleton UI (I’m in favor of making this whole thing optional)

Yeah feel like common pattern here will evolve to splash screen handlers like mobile apps where you call ready on the native one right away and display your animated one until you want to show the content.