Reimplementing Mastra Workflows: Lessons Learned

Ian Macartney reflects on his experiences while attempting to reimplement Mastra Workflows on Convex, a backend with a reactive database. Mastra is a framework for creating agentic workflows, and Macartney's goal was to replicate its behavior using Convex's durable function primitives. He discusses the technical challenges and risks associated with deeply integrating different technologies, highlighting the complexities of mimicking Mastra's features while maintaining seamless operation within Convex. Macartney ultimately decided to abandon his initial approach due to the significant effort required to keep up with Mastra's evolving feature set and instead focused on creating Convex-native components for durable workflows. He shares lessons learned from the project, including the importance of weighing integration strategies carefully and the realization that controlling the entire experience end-to-end might sometimes be more effective than attempting to adapt to an existing platform's evolving interfaces.

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