The Digital Press

PocketBase has received a sponsorship from FLOSS/fund, enabling the maintainer to focus solely on the project for a year, particularly to rewrite the UI and improve dashboard customization. The new UI rewrite aims to enable easier extensions and customizations, and a new lightweight frontend framework called Shablon is being developed to avoid heavy build steps.

Why it matters: Funding allows dedicated development time to enhance PocketBase's UI and stability, addressing major customization limitations.

The big picture: PocketBase aims to keep dependencies minimal and mark the project as "complete" after a stable release with infrequent updates.

The stakes: Creating a new UI framework risks developer adoption challenges and extra maintenance, but avoids forcing Node.js build steps on users.

Commenters say: Users are excited about the sponsorship and UI improvements, though some question the wisdom of building a custom framework versus using existing ones.