solana crypto wedding tutorial

About

This tutorial covers the following concepts:

• some basic rust programming
• how to use different networks (localnet, devnet, etc.)
• program development using Anchor
• program testing using Anchor
• how to structure a program
• the solana account model
• how to handle errors
• PDAs (program derived accounts)
• some basic defensive programming
• interacting with programs using rust based clients

The "finished" code (very much WIP) can be found here:

• crypto wedding program
• crypto wedding cli

Required before starting

• install nodejs for testing our programs
• install rust for building our programs
• install solana cli for running a local node during testing
  • have an account created to use with solana-cli (details below)
• install anchor cli for deployment and testing of our programs

To create an account for the solana-cli simply run the following (solana-keygen is installed after installing solana cli):

solana-keygen new

This will NOT overwrite any old keys unless you use --force DO NOT use --force unless you know what you are doing and are sure that you have NO FUNDS on the account.

reccommended

• some sort of rust tooling for your code editor rust-analyzer is considered the best AFAIK

optional

• install yarn you can use npm which comes with nodejs as well

How to use this tutorial

The tutorial is broken up into step-0 - step-6. Each of the steps are their own git branch. You clone it and use it as any other repo, or you can manually view the branches online.

This Tutorial was Inspired by...

• this paulx blog post
• anchor tutorials
• doors vs wheels
• learning how to build on solana

After going through the above tutorials, I more or less felt comfortable branching out and trying something on my own.

Other nice resources

• great super fast blunt explanation on how things generally work in solana
• great super fast blunt explanation on how things work in anchor
• Metaplex docs. These are the best explanations on how both fungible and non-fungible tokens work that I have found!

What to do when Stuck?

Check out the solana stackexchange. There are some very knowledgeable people there. If you post a unique question there it will likely eventually get answered. You just need to be patient and wait :)

What should I do after completing this tutorial?

Go build your own project! At this point you probably know enough to build something and/or figure out how to do the new thing that you may need in your future projects.

Live Tutorial Notes

have some sort of an office hour to help setup environment... though attendees should try to setup everything beforehand