I wrote a SvelteKit starter for farcaster frames V2, now mainly people involved with developing Farcaster/Warpcast tech mainly use Next/React, in fact, many of the official libraries don’t have docs for other stacks.
Now we should talk a bit about version 2 for Frames(rebranded recently as Mini Apps), IMO frames V1 was a bit of a flop, because it used a very inefficient way to communicate, which was through images, at the time I was firmly against that spec, and I suggested using Iframe instead, ...
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I’ve had a personal domain since 2007 and tested many frameworks and self-host solutions. Most of them were based on C++, PHP, Python, GO, and JS. Believe it or not, back in 2005-2006 it was popular to write web apps using a system language like C / C++ and use a (CGI) Common Gateway Interface to execute compiled programs. In fact, PHP was inspired a lot by C, as it first wanted to be just a templating engine for C. I didn’t touch PHP for a few years, even though I used most PHP frameworks, but ...
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I have an extension that controls the proxy of a browser. Before the rewrite, it was pretty slim, written in plain Valina JS, and I didn't touch it for three years.
But manifest V3 will be mandatory as of June this year, so I rewrote it. It took me a few hours, and I converted it into a Svelte TS extension.
Added a few new features, like the possibility to auto-disconnect if the proxy is failing, start the proxy with the browser, being able to verify a proxy is valid, and dark theme(as defaul...
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To start, I'll say what party town is, in a nutshell: it's a tool to get some of your execution out of the main thread and into a worker.
It's doing that by communicating between the worker and the main thread, which will primarily execute DOM updates.
More in-depth, this concept works by you marking the scripts as `not javascript` then those scripts are forwarded to the worker. If those scripts are external, they must be passed through a proxy that will get around CORS.
Now most common use for Pa...
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