Welcome to AElf Boilerplate's official GitHub repo !
Boilerplate is an environment that is used to develop smart contracts and dApps. Boilerplate shares some code with AElf and internally runs an AElf node.
You can follow the tutorials here that will get you started with contract development on Boilerplate. This tutorial also will guide you through the needed dependencies.
At the top level this repo contains two folders: chain and web. The chain folder contains code to facilitate contract development whereas the web folder contains the front end part of the dApp.
The process for developing the smart contract goes somewhat like this: define the smart contract, generate the code from the definition, implement the logic by using the generated code, test it and then deploy it.
The chain folder contains four sub-folders:
- contract: the implementation of the contract.
- protobuf: the definition of the contract.
- test: the unit tests of the contract.
- src: Boilerplate's core code, some elements need changing in here for the contract to be deployed.
We use Semantic Versioning (SemVer) for versioning, if you're intereted in closely following AElf's developement please check out the SemVer docs.
AElf Boilerplate is licenced under MIT