My setup for vibe coding a Farcaster mini app

1.  set up github project repository
2. use v0 to build out a frontend
3. use cursor or claude code to build out rest of app (personally found claude code to be better). include the llms.txt from farcaster as context (makes it easier for AI to read)
4. set up a database if need to store data (e.g. storing user scores in a game). I used neon with vercel since easy integration
5. deploy to vercel
6. set up farcaster specific features like a manifest and embed
7. once deployed, use ngrok to test mini app locally so not testing new features live with users

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I follow a pretty similar flow! Never tried v0, I usually have cursor build out the front and back end. 

I also use Supabase for my database (there’s an awesome MCP you can set up in cursor)

I always deploy on vercel, but I need to learn more about this testing step with ngrok because I currently do all of my testing basically live in production rn 😂

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probably the piece to the puzzle i was missing and why my mini apps never look quite as pretty as i’d like them too 🙈

v0 is so great with building frontends, like way better than cursor from my experience

Ngrok is really easy to use! 

Once you are setup you just do ngrok 3000, and it gives you back a link sjdhjfdk.ngrok-free.app 

Put that in the developer preview and you can see your miniapp

Best part is you can share it with other people too (although it's super slow cos u are serving it off your own machine)

Ok definitely trying this on my next build 🤞