A place for developers to talk about building on Farcaster.

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if you were just starting out building on farcaster, what sorts of developer resources would you want to see? some things that are on my mind:
- what is farcaster/why should i start building on it?
- mini apps and the power of their distribution
- vibe coding a farcaster app
- apis and infrastructure providers you can use

would really appreciate any comments in this thread whether you're already a dev and these resources would've helped past you, or if you'd benefit from these resources rn!

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biggest hurdle for me is moving fast with UI lol. so for backend devs like me making sure we can create the UI's needed for the mini apps 

And showing what can be built without UI :D e.g. agents

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general lol :D frontend libraries don't get me now where as I can't easily plug them together. skill issues though

generally re mini apps what I see most

1) get one up (either people don't understand metatag or web dev itself)
2) not forgetting to call sdk.actions.ready
3) setting manifest with account association (please don't force people to expert seed phrase to a cli or such, no please no)
4) understanding how to use the SDK itself to get what they want (no idea what they can do + how)
5) how to get farcaster data beyond the SDK e.g. neynar integrations

that's what I see as categories in my DMs, replies and group chats + workshops

great ones! and re moving fast with ui, do you mean that as a general comment or in terms of frontend ui libraries for you to use? def want to make sure to cover all of this