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Pre-requisites
In order to develop and build "My Dapp," the following pre-requisites must be installed:
​NodeJS​
​Yarn (DappStarter uses Yarn Workspaces)
For Flow only:
​Flow CLI (after installation run flow cadence install-vscode-extension to enable code highlighting for Cadence files)
For Solana only:
​Solana CLI Tools​
Rust (see "Dependency Guides" at the end for help installing)
Installation
Using a terminal (or command prompt), change to the folder containing the project files and type: yarn. This will fetch all required dependencies. The process will take 1-3 minutes and while it’s in progress, you can move on to the next step.
Yarn Errors
You might see failures related to the node-gyp package when Yarn installs dependencies. These failures occur because the node-gyp package requires certain additional build tools to be installed on your computer. Follow the instructions for adding build tools and then try running yarn again.
Build, Deploy and Test
Using a terminal (or command prompt), change to the folder containing the project files and type: yarn start This will run all the dev scripts in each project package.json.
To view your dapp, open your browser to http://localhost:5000 for the DappStarter Workspace.
Dependency Guides
This section contains installation guides for common dev environments.
Rust (Solana)
(Source: Solana) We suggest that you install Rust using the 'rustup' tool. Rustup will install the latest version of Rust, Cargo, and the other binaries.
Follow the instructions at Installing Rust.
For Mac users, Homebrew is also an option. The Mac Homebrew command is brew install rustup and then rustup-init. See Mac Setup & Installing Rust for more details.
After installation, you should have rustc, cargo, & rustup. You should also have ~/.cargo/bin in your PATH environment variable.
Other Scripts
If you prefer to run scripts individually, the order is:
Smart Contract
lerna run deploy [email protected]/dappstarter-dapplib --stream to compile contracts/*.sol files, deploy them to the blockchain.
Dapp
Run the dapp in a separate terminal. You must have run npm run deploy for the dapp to see the most recent smart contract changes.
lerna run dev [email protected]/dappstarter-client --stream runs the dapp on http://localhost:5001 using webpack dev server
Server
Run the server in a separate terminal. You must have run npm run deploy for the dapp to see the most recent smart contract changes.
lerna run dev [email protected]/dappstarter-server --stream runs NodeJS server app on port 5002 with NestJS
Testing
test-config.js contains settings used by test scripts
Run tests using lerna run test [test file] [email protected]/dappstarter-dapplib --stream
Production Builds
DappStarter currently does not provide blockchain migration scripts to be used in production. However, here are the scripts for generating production builds:
lerna run build:prod generates dapp bundle for production.\

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