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Mini app developers

What’s something that’s confusing or unclear in the docs?

metadata.
last time checked a bunch of metadata fields were added.

manifesto
once you know how to get it its simple. a nightmare for newbies.

What’s specifically a nightmare about the manifest?

you have to turn on developer mode on mobile otherwise dev tools are not available on destkop.

you have to generate manifest on mobile, copy/paste to a email/tg/whatsapp in order to use it on visual/cursor.

Confirming I didn't know this until reading this thread just now and was going to just live with the invalid manifest.

To add to this it’s not/wasnt clear that it has to be done via mobile. I lost a few hours trying through desktop just getting invalid manifest error back but no prompt about why (it was missing the author fields generated via mobile)