machard / protostar

Protostar is a toolchain for developing and testing with Cairo contracts for StarkNet

StarkNet smart contract development toolchain

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Table of contents

• About
• Documentation
• Installation
• Development
  • Requirements
  • Setting up environment
    • Git hooks
• Updating website/docs
• Deployment

About

Protostar manages your dependencies, compiles your project, and runs tests.

Documentation

https://docs.swmansion.com/protostar/

Installation

To install the tool, run:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/software-mansion/protostar/master/install.sh | bash

If you want to specify a version, run the following command with the requested version:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/software-mansion/protostar/master/install.sh | bash -s -- -v 0.3.2

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Development

Requirements

• good knowledge of Python
• good knowledge of pytest
• basic knowledge of Cairo and StarkNet
• basic knowledge of mypy

Setting up environment

1. Install Python version management tool: pyenv or asdf
2. Install Python 3.7.12 using the Python version management tool and activate that version
   • To be able to build Protostar, set the following environmental variable before installing Python: PYTHON_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--enable-shared"
3. Clone this repository
4. Verify the active Python version: python -V
5. Create Python virtual environment in the project directory: python -m venv .venv
6. Activate environment: source .venv/bin/activate
   • Consider using direnv to activate the environment on navigating to the project directory
7. Upgrade pip: pip install --upgrade pip
8. Install Poetry — a dependency manager
9. Install project dependencies: poetry install
   • MacBook M1/M2: CFLAGS=-I/opt/homebrew/opt/gmp/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/homebrew/opt/gmp/lib poetry install
10. Verify the setup by running tests: poe test

Git hooks

Run the following snippet to enable lint checks and automatic formatting before commit/push.

cp pre-push ./.git/hooks/
cp pre-commit ./.git/hooks/
chmod +x ./.git/hooks/pre-commit
chmod +x ./.git/hooks/pre-push

Updating website/docs

Please read website/README.md.

Deployment

$ poe deploy
Current Protostar version: 0.1.0
Provide the new Protostar version: