The onchain world is evolving fast, and with it comes the need for better, faster and more accessible tooling — tooling suites that actually makes building useful, dynamic onchain applications easier. Patchwork is our answer to that need: an Ethereum protocol designed to let onchain entities own other onchain entities, all while attaching programmable data in a structured, meaningful way.

But a powerful protocol alone isn’t enough. If we want to see a world where rich, dynamic applications exist fully onchain, we have to make the building process seamless. That’s why we built create-patchwork, and today, we’re taking things a step further with text-to-config, an important milestone release on our roadmap to deploying a full no-code development kit. 

The Fastest Path to Onchain Apps: create-patchwork

Building an onchain application isn’t just about writing smart contracts. You need indexers, APIs, deploy scripts, frontends, and a way to manage your data. That’s a lot.

create-patchwork takes care of all of that for you.

• It’s a full-stack scaffold for Patchwork-based apps.

• It automates indexers, APIs, deploy scripts, React hooks, and databases.

• With just a simple project config, you get a fully deployed app on a local testnet—in under two minutes.

If you’re a dev, this means you can go from idea to working onchain app faster than ever before. No boilerplate. No wrestling with infra. Just your app, working, now.

Introducing text-to-config: Natural Language to Onchain Apps

Today, we’re launching text-to-config, a feature that takes create-patchwork and unlocks its potential through a plain language user interface, with little-to-no code required. 

Here’s how it works:

1. Describe your app in plain English. No need to write a config file by hand.

2. text-to-config generates a ready-to-go project configuration.

3. Run create-patchwork, and boom—your app is deployed.

It’s a step toward a no-code future for onchain app development. We see text-to-config as the 80% automation milestone: the point where developers don’t have to think about config files anymore. And later this year, we’re aiming for full text-to-app functionality—where you can describe your idea in natural language and get an entire working onchain app without touching code.

The Master Plan

Our goal with Patchwork has always been to remove the gap between developers and creators. Here’s the roadmap:

1. Build a maximally useful protocol for dynamic onchain apps. (Patchwork)

2. Make it low-code. (create-patchwork)

3. Make it no-code. (text-to-config, and later, text-to-app)

text-to-config is a critical step in this journey. By making onchain application development more accessible, we’re opening the doors for a new wave of builders—whether they’re smart contract developers, product designers, or creators with big ideas and no Solidity experience.

Onchain apps should be as easy to create as websites. We’re building toward that future, and text-to-config is just the beginning.

Want to try it? Get started with create-patchwork today or catch us at EthDenver next week where Patchwork Principal Engineer, Rob Green, will be opening the conference on Thursday morning with a brief overview and learning session on low-code development. For more visit ed.patchwork.dev 

Patchwork: Code Less, Build More; Web3 Apps. Fast.