Overview

• Frames.sh Farcaster Mini-app Builder

• Quick Demo - Gifit Mini-app

• Improvements & New features

Frames.sh is proud to introduce its new tool that allow users to build Farcaster mini-apps. To learn more about Farcaster mini-apps, read the details of the specification outlined here.

Build your mini-apps quickly - create an app, add pages, add components, add styles, add interactions. Supported interactions include: clicks, hover, scrolling, value changes, on component create, on component destroy events. Supported components include text inputs, select menus, range inputs, toggle switches, images, text containers, and links.

Implement your app's logic and handle incoming requests (POST, GET, PUT, DELETE) with the Logic Editor. Parse and transform data and create request response using Flex code. To learn more about Flex code, see the documentation here.

Quickly deploy your mini-app by pressing Publish, or test your mini-app in development by pressing Save and use the Live Preview. Each mini-app can be accessed with a permalink, the link can be used for submissions to app-stores.

Gifit, a Farcaster mini-app, is now available on Warpcast as a quick demo for Frames.sh’s mini-app builder. Gifit allows its users to find and embed gifs in casts.

• PWA support - add your app to the home-screen, the feature is built-in to all apps created with Frames.sh. Enable PWA mode with /?standalone=true query string.

• Private variables - keep values in your app's logic a secret using private variables: {$_privateVariable}, private variables cannot be displayed in templates.

• Flex configuration styles - adjust your components flex styles; add wrapping, add vertical and horizontal alignments.

• Dark & Light themes - use dark, light themes for your app templates or set to auto to detect the system theme.

• App-store verification - an issue with verification when submitting apps to the app-store has been fixed.

Upcoming Features:

• Multi-media support for voice and video recording to enable media-rich applications such as live-streaming, video capture, voice capture, and more.

• HTML5 canvas support to enable games.

Let us know at contact@frames.sh

Here are our September 13, 2024 updates:

• Overhauled app-engine to improve performance and capacity.

• UI/UX improvements on Desktop & Mobile

• Deprecations

The app engine has been overhauled to support more frames and soon composer actions. The new version of the engine provides enhanced performance in processing requests, and with a new approach to rendering we've improved the frame rendering performance with better support for frame elements allowing users to supply their own frame templates through File uploads.

Fixes on UI/UX bugs in many areas have been deployed to improve usage. The platform is now fully compatible for mobile, enabling users to edit their applications on the move.

The view editor UX has been improved with less glitch when a user interacts with the elements. Border settings support is now available for users to configure borders on their application view components.

• Artifacts have been removed, all files involved in an application are now synced and can be managed into one folder "Files" (previously datasets).

• Datasearch and Visualization have been removed in favour of future implementation that can offer better user experience - our previous implementation for these were clunky.

Let us know at contacts@frames.sh or on Farcaster at: https://warpcast.com/frames-sh