🚩 Challenge #0: 🎟 Simple Counter Example

🎫 Create a simple Counter:

👷‍♀️ You'll compile and deploy your first smart contracts. Then, you'll use a template React app full of important components and hooks. Finally, you'll deploy a Counter contract written in RUST to a public network to share with friends! 🚀

🌟 The final deliverable is an app that lets users interact with the counter contract. Deploy your contracts to a testnet, then build and upload your app to a public web server.

Checkpoint 0: 📦 Prerequisites 📚

Before starting, ensure you have the following installed:

• Node.js (>= v18.17)

• Yarn

• Git

• WSL (for Windows users)

• Docker

• Curl

• Rust (including rustc, rustup, and cargo) - Install with (⚠️ Must use WSL terminal to run these commands):

  curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

  source ~/.bashrc  # or restart your terminal

• cargo-stylus
  -> Install cargo-stylus with the below command:

  cargo install cargo-stylus

  ⚠️ Note for Ubuntu users: If you face issues related to pkg-config while trying to install cargo-stylus, run these commands:

  sudo apt update
  sudo apt install pkg-config
  sudo apt install libssl-dev
  sudo apt install build-essential

• Foundry - Required for smart contract development

Foundry Installation Steps:

1. Open your WSL terminal.

2. Install Foundry using the official install script:

curl -L https://foundry.paradigm.xyz | bash

3. Add Foundry to your shell profile

After installation, you'll see instructions to add Foundry to your shell profile (like .bashrc or .zshrc). Usually, you can do:

export PATH="$HOME/.foundry/bin:$PATH"

Add the above line to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file, then reload your shell:

source ~/.bashrc

source ~/.zshrc

4. Install Foundry binaries

foundryup

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🔧 Version Requirements

Ensure your tools are ready to use:

Check your versions - ⚠️ Must use WSL terminal to run these commands

cargo stylus --version

cargo --version

rustup --version

rustc --version

curl --version

cast --version

forge --version

🚩 Challenge Setup Instructions

For Ubuntu/Mac Users:

1. Open your terminal.

2. Clone the repository:

   git clone -b counter https://github.com/abhi152003/speedrun_stylus.git speedrun_stylus_counter

   cd speedrun_stylus_counter

   yarn install

3. Start the local devnode in Docker:

   cd packages/stylus-demo

   bash run-dev-node.sh

4. In a second terminal window, start your frontend:

   cd speedrun_stylus_counter/packages/nextjs

   yarn run dev

5. Open http://localhost:3000 to see the app.

For Windows Users (Using WSL):

1. Open your WSL terminal.

2. Ensure you have set your Git username and email globally:

   git config --global user.name "Your Name"

   git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

3. Clone the repository:

   git clone -b counter https://github.com/abhi152003/speedrun_stylus.git

   cd speedrun_stylus

   yarn install

4. Start the local devnode in Docker:

   cd packages/stylus-demo

   bash run-dev-node.sh

5. Copy the contract address from the bash terminal output. You will need to paste this address into the contractAddress variable in the DebugContract component.

💡 Note: If both contract addresses are the same, you don't need to do anything - you're ready to go and interact with the stylus-based smart contracts written in RUST!

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6. In a second WSL terminal window, start your frontend:

   cd speedrun_stylus/packages/nextjs

   yarn run dev

7. Open http://localhost:3000 to see the app.

🛠️ Troubleshooting Common Issues

1. stylus Not Recognized

If you encounter an error stating that stylus is not recognized as an external or internal command, run the following command in your terminal:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y pkg-config libssl-dev

After that, check if stylus is installed by running:

cargo stylus --version

If the version is displayed, stylus has been successfully installed and the path is correctly set.

2. ABI Not Generated

If you face issues with the ABI not being generated, you can try one of the following solutions:

• Restart Docker Node: Pause and restart the Docker node and the local setup of the project. You can do this by deleting all ongoing running containers and then restarting the local terminal using:

  yarn run dev

• Modify the Script: In the run-dev-node.sh script, replace the line:

  cargo stylus export-abi

  with:

  cargo run --manifest-path=Cargo.toml --features export-abi

• Access Denied Issue: If you encounter an access denied permission error during ABI generation, run the following command and then execute the script again:

  sudo chown -R $USER:$USER target

3. 🚨 Fixing Line Endings and Running Shell Scripts in WSL

⚠️ This guide provides step-by-step instructions to resolve the Command not found error caused by CRLF line endings in shell scripts when running in a WSL environment.

Shell scripts created in Windows often have CRLF line endings, which cause issues in Unix-like environments such as WSL. To fix this:

Using dos2unix:

1. Install dos2unix (if not already installed):

   sudo apt install dos2unix

2. Convert the script's line endings:

   dos2unix run-dev-node.sh

3. Make the Script Executable:

   chmod +x run-dev-node.sh

4. Run the Script in WSL:

   bash run-dev-node.sh

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🚀 Submitting Your Challenge

After you have completed the setup and are ready to submit your solution, follow these steps:

1. Create a New GitHub Repository

   • Go to GitHub and create a new repository (public or private as required by the challenge).

2. Set Your Local Repository's Remote URL

   • In your project directory, update the remote URL to your new repository:

     git remote set-url origin https://github.com/yourusername/your-repo.git

3. Push Your Code to GitHub

   • Add and commit any changes if you haven't already:

     git add .
     git commit -m "Initial commit for challenge submission"

   • Push your code:

     git push -u origin counter

4. Submit Your Challenge

   • Copy your repository link in the following format (without .git at the end):

     https://github.com/yourusername/your-repo
     

   • Use this link to submit your challenge as instructed.

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💫 Checkpoint 1: Frontend Magic

⛽ You'll be redirected to the below page after you complete checkpoint 0

Then you have to click on the debug contracts to start interacting with your contract. Click on "Debug Contracts" from the Navbar or from the Debug Contracts Div placed in the middle of the screen

The interface allows you to:

1. Set any number
2. Add numbers
3. Increment count
4. Perform multiplications
5. Track all transactions in the Block Explorer

After that, you can easily view all of your transactions from the Block Explorer Tab

💼 Take a quick look at your deploy script run-dev-node.sh in speedrun-rust/packages/stylus-demo/run-dev-node.sh.

📝 If you want to edit the frontend, navigate to speedrun-rust/packages/nextjs/app and open the specific page you want to modify. For instance: /debug/page.tsx. For guidance on routing and configuring pages/layouts checkout the Next.js documentation.

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Checkpoint 2: 💾 Deploy your contract! 🛰

🛰 You don't need to provide any specifications to deploy your contract because contracts are automatically deployed from the run-dev-node.sh

You can check that below :

The above command will automatically deploy the contract functions written inside speedrun_stylus/packages/stylus-demo/src/lib.rs

This local account will deploy your contracts, allowing you to avoid entering a personal private key because the deployment happens using the pre-funded account's private key.

Checkpoint 3: 🚢 Ship your frontend! 🚁

We are deploying all the RUST contracts at the localhost:8547 endpoint where the nitro devnode is spinning up in Docker. You can check the network where your contract has been deployed in the frontend (http://localhost:3000):

🚀 Deploy your NextJS App

yarn vercel

Follow the steps to deploy to Vercel. Once you log in (email, github, etc), the default options should work. It'll give you a public URL.

If you want to redeploy to the same production URL you can run yarn vercel --prod. If you omit the --prod flag it will deploy it to a preview/test URL.

⚠️ Run the automated testing function to make sure your app passes

yarn test

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Checkpoint 4: 📜 Contract Verification

You can verify your smart contract by running:

cargo stylus verify -e http://127.0.0.1:8547 --deployment-tx "$deployment_tx"

cargo stylus deploy -e http://127.0.0.1:8547 --private-key "$your_private_key"

It is okay if it says your contract is already verified.

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