2022-07-16 Developer Tools Update

[AustinBaggio]

The developer tools team focuses on NEAR's tools, APIs, & SDKs for both Rust and JavaScript.

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Updates

near-sdk-js

• @volovyk-s is developing a new build pipeline for all the dependencies.
• @volovyk-s investigating alternative ways to bypass QuickJS runtime packaging without publishing src.
• @ailisp added support to build TypeScript contracts within near-sdk-cli
• @ailisp added a TypeScript contract example
• @ailisp added a contract example using low-level APIs

nearcore

• @ChaoticTempest is continuing to investigate making M1 binaries accessible (chore: Enable M1 builds on master nearcore#7173), but there’s a new build issue that sprung up, so close but not there yet.

workspaces-rs

• @ChaoticTempest exposed tokens_burnt api chore: Expose tokens_burnt near-workspaces-rs#168
• @ChaoticTempest exposed Debug/Clone interface for more publics types chore: Added Debug + Clone to Account and Contract near-workspaces-rs#167
• @itegulov finished the last bits of work on workspaces migration doc: NEAR Simulator -> workspaces-rs migration guide sdk-docs#99

sandbox

• @ChaoticTempest created Sandbox pre-release 0.4.0-pre.1: release(crate): 0.4.0-pre.1 near-sandbox#43

ABI

• @austinabell finalized ABI TS client setup feat: initialize JS ABI logic near-abi-client-js#1
• @itegulov added CI for cargo-near: feat: add CI cargo-near#7
• @itegulov exposed additional API for our fork of schemafy: feat: expose additional API required for ABI schemafy#1
• @itegulov prepared an MVP for near-sdk-abi: feat: MVP for generating ext contract traits near-sdk-abi#1
• @itegulov is actively working on near-abi-client-rs