Quickstart
Make a contract call from your frontend application.
You will learn how to:
- Install
clarinet - Generate a new project with the
clarinetCLI - Create a smart with Clarity
- Verify and debug your code in your terminal
Install clarinet
Let's build a very simple hello-world project to demonstrate how easy it is to get started building on Stacks.
First, let's make sure we've installed clarinet so that we can use the command line tools.
Create a new hello-world project
Now let's create a hello-world project. This will scaffold all the necessary files and directories for us to get started.
Create a say-hello contract
Now that our project has been generated we can start creating our first contract. Let's name this one say-hello.
Create a read-only function called say-hi
Now that we have our say-hello.clar file generated, let's create a read-only function that prints out "Hello World".
Verify your contracts
In order to verify that our code is valid, we can run clarinet check inside of our project directory to ensure our say-hi function is valid.
Next step: Add unit tests with the Clarinet SDK
The Clarinet SDK allows you to write unit tests for your Clarity smart contracts. You can theoretically use any JavaScript test framework, but the SDK supports Vitest out of the box.
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