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1. Lecture - Introduction to Solana and Blockchain

In order not to waste time on our first lecture, please prepare/install some stuff in advance. 👇

Table of Contents

• Dev Setup
• Solana Handbook
• Command cheatsheet
  • Solana commands
  • Anchor commands

Dev Setup

Tip

For step by step guide check Manual Setup

Setup	Description	Version	How to Install
Windows subsystem for Linux(WSL)	optional but highly recommended	2.0	Instructions
Rust	-	1.79.0	Instructions
Solana tool suite		1.18.18	Instructions
Anchor framework	-	0.30.1	Instructions
VSCode	chose your own preferred IDE	-	Instructions
RustAnalyzer	optional extension for VSCode	-	Instructions
Docker	Install Docker	-	Instructions

Solana Handbook

• Introduction to Solana by Ackee Blockchain Solana Handbook

Command cheatsheet

Solana CLI commands

• Get current config

  solana config get

• Set CLI config url to localhost cluster

  solana config set --url localhost # useful for local development
  solana config set -u l # shorter option, l stands for localhost

  solana config set --url devnet # useful for devnet testing
  solana config set -u d # shorter option, d stands for devnet

  More at Clusters and Public RPC Endpoints

• Create CLI Keypair

  solana-keygen new -o test.json

• Airdrop

  As you may guess, Airdrop will only work on Devnet, Testnet or Localhost. No you cannot airdrop SOL on Mainnet!!

  solana airdrop 5

  You can also optionally specify the destination address of the airdrop

  solana airdrop 5 <YOUR_PUBKEY>

  You can also use the Solana Faucet to get some SOL.

• Get PubKey from Keypair

  solana-keygen pubkey ~/my-solana-wallet/my-keypair.json

• Run Solana test validator

  In most cases (99%) you DO NOT NEED TO start the local validator by yourself. Down below you can find the Anchor commands which will handle everything for you.

  solana-test-validator

• Get logs from the Solana validator

  solana logs

Anchor commands

• Initialize new project

  anchor init <your_project_name>

• Build the project

  anchor build

• Test the project (preferred)

  anchor test

• Test the project (less preferred)

  In separate window, call:

  solana-test-validator

  Within the anchor project directory
  • Build the project

    anchor build

  • Run Tests without starting the local validator (as you started it manually in the step above)

    anchor test --skip-local-validator

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