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Tinkering with

via

- if you were looking for resources to build web3 projects and delve into blockchain, this is a pretty slick way how to get started! Besides,

@FarzaTV

's sense of humor is tolerable at least 😉 (read: I love it).

Kirill So

@kirso_

Nov 25, 2021

So sharing a few learnings so far into the "weekend project". Seems like

@solana

dev ecosystem is still fairly early, which is actually not a bad thing. As per tweet here:

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Armani ONE

@armaniferrante

Sep 5, 2021

For every new technology, the pace of innovation exceeds the pace of education. If there's tons of examples to copy and paste, you're late. If you're confused because there's no docs, good. You've discovered a secret that has yet to be revealed to the rest of the world.

Kirill So

@kirso_

Nov 25, 2021

1/ Building a GIF portal into a "Schwiftyverse" - the project is about connecting to Solana's blockchain and being able to submit and read GIFs (

@RickandMorty

styled theme) without the need of the usual database. We also use

@phantom

wallet instead of a usual sign-in.

Kirill So

@kirso_

Nov 25, 2021

2/ create-react-app and front-end to connect to the wallet is pretty straight-forward: - !walletAdderss not connected - button prompt - useState hook for public key / storing the GIF input / render GIFs - useEffect hook to check if the wallet is connected on every re-render

Kirill So

@kirso_

Nov 25, 2021

3/ Overall no biggie, but the GIFs are currently being served statically (I just picked a few). The interesting part comes when the Solana program should be called here and retrieve the GIFs from the blockhain.

Kirill So

@kirso_

Nov 25, 2021

4/ Now here is where issues started. Installing Solana is not easy, but dev tools like Anchor from

@ProjectSerum

which allows to run Solana locally and provide NPM module to connect to the webapp make it easier. Here is a full-guide fopr M1 by

@_buildspace

github.com

buildspace-projects/m1_setup.md at main · buildspace/buildspace-projects

The home of our open-source projects. Contribute to buildspace/buildspace-projects development by creating an account on GitHub.

Kirill So

@kirso_

Nov 25, 2021

5/ The whole process goes something like this: - Install Rust - Install Solana - Install NPM packages - Install Anchor - Create project and generate keypair You can even run a local validator node! After re-installing solana and deleting cache a few times it finally passed!