Mini Apps

Out of curiosity, what’s the tech stack for coding mini-apps? Like, where do you start? Frankly, I rarely use mini-apps, and I’m an bad programmer despite having done it in internships. Although it is fun, I’ve given up on it as a career, especially with AI, but I’ll write about that in another post lol.

I like talking about our awesome planet, doing engineering, and making music. And of course, DRAGONS!!!🐉🐉🐉
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Ooohh, my girlfriend @shelbykiram loves coding in php hahahahha

I feel a gold rush type situation with mimiapps/frames soon. Hopefully 😁😁😁
I coded in php a long time ago 😁

I still code though from time to time, so I’m deathly curious XD maybe I’ll try to code one at some point, but imo my interest is more towards embedded systems than software engineering but always willing to learn more :) i just know imma never be able to keep up with it + am not AI-savvy among other reasons

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oh that's really interesting to know. for me coding is an escape from the pressure of going in front of the camera 😂

Oh I’ve been coding for a lot longer than making videos hahah funny enough i’m way better at making videos, but coding is really fun at my own pace working through problems I love it. i did signal processing in VHDL at NASA for their accelerometer, and that was so much fun. Individual work. Stressful tho😂😂

you are doing a great job.

from content to now coding.

keep going my friend.

If it helps any, I use VS Code Insiders 2022 for my editor, TypeScript for the language, miniapps.farcaster.xyz for docs and ChatGPT for a lot of my questions. 😆

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Oooohhh cool cool I used tupescript at one point lol

I enjoy using Claude Sonnet 4 as my Copilot in VS Code. 

I’d say it’s a “comfy” setup. 
I have separate chats for planning/ideation vs. editing code.

I only really have backend experience w/o AI support, so realizing front end ideas quickly has been really fun!

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Oh newt you wanna make mini apps now?😂😂💫👏👏👏💯

Like to post about Nature and Wildlife in the form of random pics, vids and memes … like to post my own content…

Nature facts mini app🥰 hahahahha idk what i’d even make.

If anyone could point to a step-by-step guide for someone with no coding exp or knowledge of anything 😂, plus info on what is required to build a mini app like website hosting ect…? Would find it very helpful… @newtp enjoy your content would love to see what kinda mini app you’ll bring to the mix !!

Oh gotcha, well I need to actually figure out what a mini app even is first haha

Mini-apps usually start with React + a simple backend like Node or Firebase. Even with basic skills, they're fun to build with AI helping out now.

Not a bad idea 😜 

You can start deploying using vercel to see how everything works then build up from there.

I guess react and node JS aren't bad places to start 👍

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https://miniapps.farcaster.xyz/docs/getting-started

This web page shows the tools you can use

Oooh the farcaster framework :0 what’s that?

I personally will use react and the farcaster framework if I am building from scratch. 

Certain people use @neynar but sincerely I don’t know how that works yet.

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Found this super useful!! 



https://youtu.be/HSpiboxy2-c?si=ZyziSN2CS_-gnY4s

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As a backend dev who really doesn’t like frontend stuff, I found the Neynar Mini App SDK surprisingly useful.

You just run an npm command and it bootstraps a mini app ,hello world style, and you can edit from there to add your code. Super smooth experience

No, just wondering how to write it from scratch

Do you already have your code written and want to port it over as a mini app?

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I second @linda’s timeline, scroll down and she wrote a 1-2-3 setup recently!

Deff using Vercel for website hosting is the move! Try using v0 for front end. I'm sure @linda would love to share more tips