Exploring

Architecture and UX of web 3

Learn to design blockchain-powered application architectures that involve contract orchestration and take full advantage of the NEAR account model and access keys.

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The goal for this session is to build a coherent mental model of how web 3 applications are structured on NEAR.

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CORE Activities

• Explore the near-api-js Starter Kit
  This repo includes a few simple examples to help make clear the basics of connecting to near
• Expore the NEAR documentation for frontend development
  This documentation covers a wide range of concepts using concrete examples

BONUS Activities

If you have the time to look around the corner, here's a little more for you.

• Explore the near-api-js workshop
  This workshop includes several structured activities to help you become more familiar with the NEAR APIs

Going Deeper

If you're feeling fearless, here's about as far as you might take this road in a day

• Read How to use NEAR in a game and When blockchain makes sense
• Review all NEAR App Examples and watch related Live App Review videos
• Dive into near-api-js source (just focus on the .ts files as the rest are generated)
• Dive into NEAR CLI source to see how these applications address the network
  • NodeJS implementation
  • Rust implementation

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None of us is as smart as all of us

– Ken Blanchard

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It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

– Albert Einstein

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Resources

Basics I

• Networks will help you make sense of the fact that you are connecting to a live network and must choose which one to work with, either TestNet where money is free or MainNet or money is connected with the outside world
• Accounts will help you make sense of the NEAR account system
• Hackathon guide will help you try a few things quickly and avoid some common pitfalls when building with NEAR
• FAQ includes a few common questions that developers ask
• NEAR CLI is an implementation of a NEAR client-side application that sends requests to the network

Basics II

• Actions will help you make sense of the structure of transactions – they're made up of one or more Actions
• Transaction will help you make sense of the structure of transactions
• Frontend Reference is a reference for frontend development on NEAR
• Frontend Cookbook is a list of useful code recipes for working with NEAR
• Gas will help you make sense of the concept of Gas and how it is spent

Intermediate

• Structure of near-api-js is a deep dive into the structure of near-api-js
• Figment is a set of tutorials built by developers for developers who are new to NEAR
• NEAR APIs workshop is a workshop to help you explore the various features of the NEAR APIs
• CRUD dApp is a full stack application built using NEAR

Advanced

• Indexer Framework is a design and sample implementation of an indexing service that captures on chain activity and lets you query it over time
• App Review is a series of videos that explain the code living in https://github.com/near-apps
• RPC API is official documentation for the NEAR RPC API
• REST Server is an implementation of a wrapper for near-api-js that exposes a REST interface for easy onboarding from web 2
• near-api-js is the documentation for near-api-js