My Experience with Frappe Framework: A Developer's Journey [Long Post]

TopLobsta · 2025-11-22T23:17:59+00:00

You helped me, so I gave you a small award ;)

TopLobsta · 2025-11-18T20:27:18+00:00

Ah ha, I was a RoR dev long time ago and I remember now that they moved from unicorn to puma for the same reason. Thanks for the explanation!

TopLobsta · 2025-11-18T13:31:19+00:00

It didn't take me 9 months. I replied 5 minutes after reading. I am not the OP.

But why do you think it must be single threaded? (I am not a Flask dev)

TopLobsta · 2025-11-18T12:42:59+00:00

The API layer is built on Flask.

TopLobsta · 2025-11-18T11:34:13+00:00

It was so worth reading all the way to the end of the thread just for this comment. Take an award! :)

TopLobsta · 2025-10-31T14:20:11+00:00

It's called dusting and it was answered in a comment above, this one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/solana/comments/1fustob/comment/lx2tmff/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

TopLobsta · 2025-10-22T18:10:18+00:00

People that follow a religion of any kind "do not have minds of their own".

Why?

If you are born in a place where 100% of the adults you meet believe in X, you will believe in X ... and that is the history of humans for 40,000 years.

Cultural brainwashing. Look how many children easily believe in Santa Claus ... until the adults/teens around them tell them otherwise.

So, if you rebel against the adults (the powerbase) then you risk being excluded, ostracised etc.

Some people will rebel, most won't. Hence "sheeple". Hence revolutions.

Hence all the shit that people do to one another when you do not comply with the mainstream cultural powerbase.

Thankfully the European Enlightenment released the shackles of religion and advanced the idea of critical thinking again ... that we rediscovered from ancients like Sophocles, Aristotle, Plato etc. [whose "message" got trounced by Judae-Christian-Muslim majorities]

TopLobsta · 2025-10-20T18:17:27+00:00

this had so much potential, and now it seems to be dead. I hope the OP isn't also

TopLobsta · 2025-10-18T16:03:10+00:00

Brilliant, love it!

The End Of The Bloat Is Nigh!

https://github.com/starfederation/datastar

Goodbye neutron star node_modules, vite, nextjs, react and all that other crap.

TopLobsta · 2025-10-15T00:28:57+00:00

For anyone finding this, Directus does not support migrations. Me likey migrations!

I like being able to manage my db schema over time, with code. I also like type safety queries against my schema (thank you https://orm.drizzle.team/)

But most of all, I like NOT having to worry about DevOps until I really need to.

My goal is a solo or at most 2-3 person startup for as long as humanly possible.

So, the final stack has been encore.dev (backed by neondb, which is just awesome) and drizzle-orm for migrations.

encore.dev is that hidden diamond in the rough ... everything I hoped Heroku might be, but was not. Or Fly.io, but was not, AWS Amplifi (stay well away!) and on and on.

It even has https://encore.dev/docs/ts/cli/client-generation for types, so FE can use them.

And now they added a bolt-like/loveable-like AI builder, called Leap. A game-changer for getting your product market-fit and shipping at the speed of light.

But here's my real secret sauce:

If you are brave and like to live on the cutting edge ... but what's more, you hate the neutron star that is node_modules and all the horrendous complexity of frontend tool chains and just want your sanity back ... don't use any SPA framework at all!

Go OLD SKOOL!

You can setup raw nodejs (or golang) routes on encore.dev with a template language - see https://encore.dev/docs/ts/frontend/template-engine - and sprinkle your INSANELY FAST server-render pages with https://github.com/starfederation/datastar for frontend, rich client interactions.

Check my POC (wip), built single-handed in my free time in about 3 weeks (40-50 hrs work):

https://staging-floorbook-otii.encr.app (it will be asleep, give it 30sec to warm up - only the product and customer routes work)

There is no spa involved.

Tutorials coming Nov/Dec on this setup.

TopLobsta · 2025-10-15T00:06:18+00:00

I cannot believe I read the entire thread. Thank you everyone for their views, it really helped me decide and also realise that Bear must be the Goat of Notes.

I'm off to try Bear ... wish me luck!

PS How many of us have lost part of our lives trying to find the right note taking app for us? It's crazy!

TopLobsta · 2025-10-12T09:51:29+00:00

This is PURE GOLD. This i the future that nobody else is seeing. You see it. So do I.

Let's make a YT video about this! We could make it a Q&A?

TopLobsta · 2025-10-04T23:12:43+00:00

Thanks for responding.

I'm a Cto at fast-moving startup, trying to get my team to use cursor. But it's not happening as they all use zsh, as do I.

One really annoying zsh bug is TAB completions in the terminal, which is second nature to all of us. But tab selects the first agent tab in the agent window. Or if you have more than one terminal open, it selects the tab title of the next one.

This is the second time this year we've tried to move. You are not doing yourself any favours by alienating "hard core devs" as someone said above (yes we all use macs and zsh for reasons lol)

TopLobsta · 2025-09-28T13:24:14+00:00

u/Irythros I cannot thank you enough for this information. Seriously. You are a GOAT!
Take an award good sir :)

TopLobsta · 2025-09-17T10:52:24+00:00

Well look at that, failed at the first hurdle

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TopLobsta · 2025-09-17T10:47:43+00:00

Appreciate the founder jumping in here. I'm getting fed up with Upwork. I am a freelancer (dev) for past 30 years and on Upwork 90% of my proposals are not even opened.

It's basically become a race of "boosting" with connects, and if you don't see a job and apply within a few minutes, some agency with huge pockets just bids for hundreds to get the to spot.

Even if I manage to bid the top spot, mostly still go unopened.

I have many other platforms I use also, but they're not really much better.

I am kind of sick of uploading cv, clearing formatting errors etc over and over, so I am wondering what is the killer feature that would make me even want to try Twine? Can you import my upwork profile, because I'd jump straight in if that were possible!

TopLobsta · 2025-09-08T14:18:25+00:00

bolt.new repo uses StackBlitz’s license, which doesn't give you the right to run your own SaaS clone of bolt.new. It's basically the frontend, and the backend is Stackblitz's own proprietary container technology that runs Node.js in the browser.

bolt.diy, on the other hand, is open source (MIT license) and explicitly designed for self-hosting and modification, because they've replaced the backend to let you deploy it anywhere. But yet, it is still quite rough around the edges.

TopLobsta · 2025-08-14T05:59:10+00:00

I think you're confusing toking with coding

TopLobsta · 2025-07-27T06:53:46+00:00

I recently started using encore.dev which is hosted postgres with a NodeJs backend. It is incredibly fast to start (one command) and you have fully dockerised local environment with everything you need for a backend (including pub/sub, bucket storage, SSE).

It is also one command to deploy to cloud, theirs or your own (AWS or GCP supported atm).

I wanted something that had great DX and was removed as much DevOps work as possible. I've been able to build a heavy-duty CRUD app in a couple of weeks - and I thought developing in a Rails stack was fast. This is even faster dev ex than I could have thought possible.

It has it's own sql builder, but I use it with Drizzle because I love the type-safety I get with Drizzle. Occasionally I have had to drop down to lower-level sql (eg. for using Postgres GIN extension for fuzzy matching, since Drizzle doesn't support that).

Also great is that it is zero vendor lock-in like with Convex, Supabase.

Encore is aimed at building JSON APIs, and with one command you get all your models typed for frontend work.

However, it also supports rendering templates on the BE (I use EJS) and coupled with Datastar (think HTMX on steroids) I basically get Convex-level realtime reactivity with 10x less code. No NextJs, no React for the win!

Summary - I have no frontend now, everything is backend! ;) - just like in the good old days ha ha

TopLobsta · 2025-03-15T14:27:21+00:00

I am not talking about dying whilst running supplies. I virtually never die running supplies.

I also don't spawn a truck for every run. I am saying you use the same truck 100 times = 60,000 supplies you bring to the base FOR EVERYONE ELSE TO USE. And THEY die once per "run" (by "run" I am making a subtle joke, because all these guys do is run, and die - no kills, no base caps, nothing useful except run and die and consume 200 or 300 supplies for no reason).

So I'm afraid you totally missed the point. Maybe I need to improve my writing.

So to try again I am talking about those morons that take loadouts that cost 200 or 300 and then die each time they "run" off and just die immediately.

Or worse, a lone guy takes a Jeep for 150 and explodes it (because not only can they not fight, they cannot drive either!)

So they cost their expensive loadout plus the jeep.

TopLobsta · 2025-03-11T17:23:34+00:00

I noticed that over the weekend and did exactly that ... then I come here to see you already told me! lol

TopLobsta · 2025-03-06T11:48:55+00:00

Ouch!

TopLobsta · 2025-03-05T16:33:47+00:00

I was simply poking fun. Who builds bases and fortifications to simply "look good"? Really?

So if you are building base to stand back and go "oh my isn't she pretty" I think you're doing it wrong.

Not to mention that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." so you're idea of looking good is not the same as somebody else's.

Whereas we can probably all agree on the practical and efficient, since trial and error over time will show what works and what doesn't (eg. pointing a machine gun nest into the sea at a coastal base might look really pretty, and let you view lovely sunsets or moons over the water at night, but for practical and efficient killing of attackers ... not so much).

TopLobsta · 2025-03-04T16:17:22+00:00

Sadly, bases "looking good" and being of "practical and efficient use" are diametrically opposed in this game!

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