Click here to test on devnet.
(Cost: 4 devnet SOL)
Swap your wallet to devnet within the settings of your wallet app or eztenstion.
To deploy your own version of this webpage, you'll need your own candymachine over which you retain the mint authority. Follow these steps to create your own NFT collection on Solana.
For Mac
Open the Terminal application on your Mac.
Install Homebrew, a package manager for macOS, by running the following command in the Terminal:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
Once Homebrew is installed, use it to install the Solana tool suite by running the following command in the Terminal:
brew install solana
The Solana tool suite should now be installed on your Mac. To confirm, run the following command in the Terminal:
solana --version
You should see the version number of Solana printed in the Terminal.
For Windows
Download the Solana installer for Windows from the official Solana website at https://solana.com/downloads.
Run the installer and follow the on-screen instructions to install the Solana tool suite on your Windows computer.
Once the installation is complete, open the Command Prompt application on your Windows computer.
Confirm that the Solana tool suite is installed by running the following command in the Command Prompt:
solana --version
You should see the version number of Solana printed in the Command Prompt.
(There are newer versions of Sugar, but they are not compatible with my UI. If you upgrade Sugar to the latest version, you'll get a notification that your candymachine address is not a candymachine address. This was the only solution I could come up with, happy to hear suggestions though. Open a pull request!)
Open the Terminal or Command Prompt application on your computer.
Use the following command to install sugar-cli 1.2.2 using npm, the Node.js package manager:
npm install -g @solana/spl-token-cli@1.2.2
Once the installation is complete, you can verify that sugar-cli 1.2.2 is installed by running the following command in the Terminal or Command Prompt:
sugar --version
You should see the version number of sugar-cli printed in the Terminal or Command Prompt.
Navigate to your assets folder and open the .json files in a text editor. You'll want to modify from the following text for each asset:
{
"name": "YOUR-NFT-NAME-HERE",
"symbol": "YOUR-SYMBOL",
"description": "Simple description.",
"image": "0.png",
"attributes": [
{
"trait_type": "Hacks Session",
"value": "1"
},
{
"trait_type": "Sensor Type",
"value": "YOUR-SENSOR-HERE"
},
{
"trait_type": "Image",
"value": "YOUR-IMAGE"
}
],
"properties": {
"files": [
{
"uri": "0.png",
"type": "image/png"
}
]
}
}
Swap your project environment to devenet using the following command:
solana config set --url devnet
In order to create your candymachine, you'll need a command line wallet. Setup one within your project's root directory with this command:
solana-keygen new -o ./wallet.json
Be careful with this keypair, it's the same on mainnet-beta as it is on devenet, so comprimising this keypair could cost you your collection once you ship it on main!
Run this command to setup your Candymachine configuration file:
sugar create-config
You'll be asked a series of questions, here's my answers:
Check out our Candy Machine config docs to learn about the options:
-> https://docs.metaplex.com/developer-tools/sugar/guides/configuration
✔ What is the price of each NFT? · 1
? Found 10 file pairs in "assets". Is this how many NFTs you will have in your c✔ Found 10 file pairs in "assets". Is this how many NFTs you will have in your candy machine? · yes
✔ Found symbol "HACKS" in your metadata file. Is this value correct? · yes
✔ What is the seller fee basis points? · 100
? What is your go live date? Many common formats are supported. If unsure, try YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS [+/-]UTC-OFFSET or type 'now' for current time. For example 2✔ What is your go live date? Many common formats are supported. If unsure, try YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS [+/-]UTC-OFFSET or type 'now' for current time. For example 2022-05-02 18:00:00 +0000 for May 2, 2022 18:00:00 UTC. · now
✔ How many creator wallets do you have? (max limit of 4) · 1
✔ Enter creator wallet address #1 · REDACTED-USE-YOUR-SOL-ADDY
? Enter royalty percentage share for creator #1 (e.g., 70). Total shares must ad✔ Enter royalty percentage share for creator #1 (e.g., 70). Total shares must add to 100. · 100
? Which extra features do you want to use? (use [SPACEBAR] to select options you wan✔ Which extra features do you want to use? (use [SPACEBAR] to select options you want and hit [ENTER] when done) ·
✔ What is your SOL treasury address? · REDACTED-USE-YOUR-SOL-ADDY
✔ What upload method do you want to use? · Bundlr
? Do you want to retain update authority on your NFTs? We HIGHLY recommend you choos✔ Do you want to retain update authority on your NFTs? We HIGHLY recommend you choose yes. · yes
? Do you want your NFTs to remain mutable? We HIGHLY recommend you choose yes. (y/n)✔ Do you want your NFTs to remain mutable? We HIGHLY recommend you choose yes. · yes
[2/2] 📝 Saving config file
You can also create the configuration file by creating a file named config.json in your projects root directory. Here is an example.
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Example
Next run this command in your terminal:
sugar upload
You'll need devnet SOL in your wallet to pay for this transaction. If you get an error, run this command: Be sure to use the command line wallet address you just created! You can view your wallet by importing your keypair from wallet.json to Solflare.
solana airdrop 2 YOUR-ADDRESS-HERE
Once you have SOL in your developer wallet, you should be able to proceed with sugar upload
Here we go! Now that you've got some devnet SOL in your wallet, your configuration file all setup, and your assets uploaded to Arweave, you can launch your collection. It's about to get real!
Run this command:
sugar launch
You should see something like this:
I'd like to take a moment to tell you how great of a job you're doing! You just shipped your first NFT collection on Solana devnet! Pat yourself on the back, hacker.
Now all you have to do is copy that Candymachine ID you were just provided in your terminal, and paste it in your components/Connected.tsx file, in line 45:
useEffect(() => {
if (!metaplex) return
metaplex
.candyMachinesV2()
.findByAddress({
address: new PublicKey("ENTER_YOUR_CANDYMACHINE_ID_HERE"),
})
.then((candyMachine) => {
console.log(candyMachine)
setCandyMachine(candyMachine)
})
.catch((error) => {
alert(error)
})
}, [metaplex])
You should be able to test things out now. Try running npm i and npm run dev in your console from your project's root directory. The project may take a moment to compile, you're installing all the node-modules. When you push this project to github it will ask if you want to add your node-modules to .gitignore, say YES! which will add node_modules to your file.
Head into pages/index.tsx to modify the text and images. Feel free to delete the help button, or change what it says, etc. Thanks for joining me for this tutorial. I hope you feel accomplished! If you ran into any trouble, find me on Discord or Twitter and bother me about it. This should be pretty simple, but I chewed a lot of glass to get here so I may be taking some things for granted. I'm happy to help!