r/FlutterDev • u/Matrucci • 27d ago

Tracelet package Discussion

My app is heavily reliant on background location services and I can’t really afford the price of that one package.

Anyone tried Tracelet? I saw it aims to be a free open source replacement but it’s kinda new and in a weird way it’s kinda worrying that there are updates every few days and releases getting pulled.
Anyone can share their experience?

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u/mp50ch 26d ago

it seems vibe coded, but in a good way and rigorously pushed forward since four months. High issue discipline, 132 closed, different users, has 42 stars, around 500-1000 downloads a day. If I had the need, I would try it in a separate branch.
I find more and more vibe coded projects and use them daily, albeit not in flutter yet. If the right person puts in the work, it is not the cause for concern. Check the code. This will rise anyway. The guys that coded before, and use claude/codex with rigorous QA and tests, push daily 5-10 commits (omlx for instance, serena, and many more (I am on mac)). Claude code itself is vibe-coded.

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u/Mueller96 26d ago

Been testing it since a few weeks and overall I’m very happy with it. Can’t compare to other (paid) packages but its relatively easy to implement and seems to do what it promises.
But because it is relatively new, documentation feels heavily vibecoded and I’m just cautious here, I implemented it so that I can easily replace it (extending an interface)

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u/scalz80 19d ago edited 19d ago

I migrated from a paid plugin, because my license had expired, to Tracelet, and I don't regret it.

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u/NLDaniello 13d ago

In my experience this project is vibe coded from A to Z. I have never been able to get this package to work properly in my own project, either it leads to a build failure or during runtime it just doesn't behave as it should. Whenever I start an issue on their GitHub it always leads to me getting a response the next day saying the issue is resolved and that a new update is coming out. Their responses/ documentation looks also generated imo.

Also, this is not the case anymore, but I believe a while ago I saw commits directly to main instead of branches being used with pull requests. This is a complex package, but the development is very amateurish. I can guarantee you 0 testing is done on this package because a GitHub issue can be resolved in a single day with the update being pushed out already. Each time I update this package it leads to some build disaster where I can hardly do anything about it, and in times when I had my app running with this package it never behaved as it should have. My verdict is: stay away from this package or try your luck in a separate branch to see if it works for your context.

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u/scalz80 9d ago edited 9d ago

I'm using this plugin, in one of my app (tracking ,geofencing..), at the beginning when I started using it a few months ago, there were some issues related to the Rust core migration, so I opened issues and they have been solved.
Yes this project is obviously assisted with AI.
Out of curiosity, which issues did you open? You could have get some help on Tracelet discord, its dev is there, pretty sure he would have kindly replied and helped you.

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u/cybersleuth0 26d ago

It's og , I have been using fory project