Farcaster Devs

crowd sourcing ideas for a frame tips, tricks, and pitfalls

what do you wish you had found in the docs when working on frames?

Building @warpcast and @farcaster, new dad, like making food

I would have loved to stick to JSON and not HTML so I can deploy frames on AWS / GCP etc without running vercel type app.

Leader, Coder, Product person and building simple solutions for tough problems. Enjoy Summer, Board Games, Games. My opinions here.

JSON would have some nice benefits and is something we'd consider in a v2

but not seeing how that relates to deploying to Vercel vs AWS / GCP? you can deploy anywhere you can deploy a node app?

I could use API Gateways to return static JSON values ( or from S3 or similar cloud storage ). I believe its possible but did not check. Would be nice that users can upload their images and pin that carousel to their channel / profile.

Can’t you return html there too? As html file with meta tags

Developer 🤓 build, develop and operate Farcaster solutions @ dtech.vision also love tech, decentralization, fitness and oldschool rap 😎

Html is more complex than JSON to be honest for avg developer. { buttons : [ {} ] , image, input } is pretty much it. It's not about can or can't , its the choice that is friendly to adapt the tech better. 

Most implementations take JSON that converts to HTML which gets converted back to JSON by Frame Proxy in Warpcast. So do you need such complexity ?