Build your first full-stack ink! dApp

[wottpal]

Why would it help the Polkadot Dev Community
Scaffolding ink! dApps is not easy, and often all that associated complexity turns down new devs trying to enter the ecosystem. With the ink!athon Boilerplate we abstracted aways a lot of complexity on the frontend- and contract-levels to give developers a starting point to setup their new first ink! project with a working in a pre-configured but un-opinionated workspace.

Traction:

• The boilerplate ink!athon has more than 100 stars on GitHub and the associated JS/TS library useInkathon has more than 100 dependents on Github (projects acutally using it).
• We have an active ink! developer focused Telegram group which just surpassed 100 members.

References:

• My sub0 workshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoNLZfsd0mQ
• My encode workshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHWbA4DBOFU

Note: The tutorial content I'm proposing is loosely aligned with the structure of the talks above, but (a) it will be a lot more detailed and (b) more up-to-date as the boilerplate & library got many advancements in the recent months.

Tutorial Outline

1. First-time ink!athon setup & rough walkthrough
2. Build first ink! contract, deploy on a local node, and connect frontend to it
3. Detailed walkthrough

• frontend/ directory
• contracts/ directory

4. Extending the demo functionality:

• Extending the contract, rebuilding, and redeploying it
• Extending the frontend to use the updated contract functionality

5. Frontend deployment guide

Deadline
February 2024

Checks
You do not have to check all.

• There is no similar tutorial alread around somewhere (only the videos above)
• I want to receive funding and have not already received funding for the tutorial
• The tutorial is not published yet
• The tutorial is already published add link

[github-actions]

Cool, thank you for creating your first issue on polkadot.study.

[niklasp]

okay i think as there are no comments so far i can say, lets go, create it. i am currently trying to update to docusaurus 3.0 so there might be some (minor) adaptions needed when that process is done, but i will help you on it. As you applied for funding, i'd send 50% (700$ in KSM or USDC) upon submitting a first version and the rest after reviews and when published. Are you okay with that?

Happy to have you onboard

[wottpal]

Amazing, thanks @niklasp 🙌
I will report back in a couple of weeks with the first draft.

[niklasp]

@wottpal any update on this? if you dont find the time please also tell me so i can maybe write the tutorial myself or continue finding other authors on other subjects