Golem is a JavaScript CLI-Tool for creating, testing, and deploying Urbit apps, as well as integrating with decentralized package managment registires such as Egyn.
Rather than building additional tools for Urbit, Golem is the mud and the piping — providing a minimally opinionated full-stack framework for combining the existing tools for Urbit development as well as integrating new ones.
/<my-project>
/apps
/<my-project>
/desk
/<desk-template>
/desk-deps
/base-dev
/garden
...<other-desks>
/ui
/<react-template>
/ships
/ships.json
/zod (fake)
/<other-fake-ships
golem, is a CLI, install golem globally via npm or yarn:
npm install -g @archetype-org/golem
Once installed you can begin creating projects and installing packages from the registry.
To publish a package, you will need to have a NEAR account and some NEAR in it for gas. (See here for more information.)
You can create a blank app by default or build one from template with the commands below:
To create an empty project which includes the minimal gall agent and no frontend. If you are using golem globally installed, run:
golem new <my-project>
To instead create a project from a specific template you can supply the template name like so:
golem new <my-project> <template-name>
NOTE: For expediency, the create command does not initialize your test ship for the project. Once you have a project, you can initialize it with:
cd <my-project>
golem init
This should take a few minutes to run.
Here are a couple templates available in the CLI and example commands
This template provides a sur, lib, and mar files for one datatype and uses them in the on-poke and on-peek arms of the agent. The setup is meant to be easily extensible either by adding properties or additional data types.
golem new <my-project> crud
cd <my-project>
golem init
This template includes all the piping in the CRUD template as well as an opinionated setup for serving Sail UI from the same agent, inlcuding separation of UI components into files.
golem new <my-project> sail
cd <my-project>
golem init
Once you are in the project folder you can build the test envs by running:
cd <my-project>
golem build
Once this is run, you can find your desk installed in a test ship at http://localhost, the UI will still need to be globbed for it to show up, but you can confirm the desk installation by visiting http://localhost/docket/upload and finding it in the dropdown. Use the form on that page to upload the contents of the /<my-project>/ui folder and you should be able to test it.
If you need it, you can access the shell for your test env at any time with:
golem shell
golem runs your test ships in the background. You can stop a running urbit ship by running:
golem kill
This will search for a running urbit ship and kill it. This will kill the ship regardless of if it is a golem project or another fakeship you have running.
To install a package from the registry, you can use the install command like so:
golem install @<publisher-name>/<package-name>
The publisher name is the NEAR account name of the person or organization that published the package.
To uninstall a package, you can use the uninstall command like so:
golem uninstall @<publisher-name>/<package-name>
Publishing uses the near blockchain and IPFS, you will need an account on NEAR's testnet with some NEAR in it for gas. There are no requirments on the IPFS side.
Once you have a NEAR account you must also install the CLI and login with it. Full and up to date instructions can be found here. But the basic steps are:
npm install -g near-cli
near login
Once logged in, you can publish a package by running:
golem publish <package-name> <semantic-version>
The package name must match a folder or path in your project, and the semantic version must be a valid semantic version. By default, golem will look for the specified folder or file in the /lib folder, but if you specify /app, /sur, or /mar, in the prefix of your path, it will look in the root of that folder instead. Any valid hoon file or folder of hoon files is a valid package.
You can search the registry for a package to verify that it exists by running:
golem search @<publisher-name>/<package-name>
the search command in the CLI can't not perform fuzzy matching by default, since the registry contract is decentralized, it is includeded to allow for easy verification of a package's existence without installing it.