Hi Frappe Team,
My development team and I are currently building a custom application on Frappe Framework Version 16. While we appreciate the direction of the new architecture, we have run into a major roadblock regarding the stability of the Workspace Sidebar layout engine.
During development, we have repeatedly encountered severe issues where utilizing standard layout types—such as Sidebar Item Group and Section Break—results in silent frontend loop failures, causing subsequent menu items to completely disappear from the DOM. We have isolated the issue to a structural conflict between strict database/JSON schema validations and the asynchronous asset rendering loop in sidebar.js.
Manually editing exported JSON files to strip out automated properties is not a viable or scalable workflow for an enterprise-grade project. Because of this, we would appreciate direct clarity on the following points:
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Bug Resolution Timeline: Are there immediate patches or hotfixes planned to address the strict field validation and silent frontend crashes within the v16 Workspace Sidebar?
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v16 Stability Roadmap: When can the developer community expect Version 16’s Desk customization tooling to reach a stable, production-ready state?
Our team is currently evaluating our long-term tech stack. We need to understand Frappe’s commitment to stabilizing these core developer-facing UI features before we commit further resources, or decide whether we need to migrate our project to an alternative framework.
I look forward to your prompt and candid response.
Best regards,