To start developing GIF contracts you can launch a fully preconfigured development container based on Microsoft Visual Studio Code with just a few clicks.
The following instuctions currently work for the gif-interface as well as the gif-contracts repository.
The following components must be installed on your machine
- Visual Studio Code
- Visual Studo Code Extension Visual Studio Code Remote - Containers installed and activated
- Container engine (e.g. Docker, Podman or similar)
- Checkout the repository for gif-interface or gif-contracts
- Open the source in Visual Studio Code
- In some cases Visual Studio Code will detect the (so called) devcontainer automatically and show a little pop-up window at the bottom right offering to reopen the project inside the development container automatically.
- If this is not the case, then press
F1and choose the optionRemote-Containers: Reopen in container. This will build a new (fully configured) development container and reopen Visual Studio Code within that container.
- Please note: building of the container can take some minutes as the container setup downloads and installs all required dependencies.
- Once the contaner is up, you now have a fully configured IDE for GIF development at your hands. Happy coding!
- Join us on Discord if you have any questions.
If you have access to Github Codespaces it gets even easiert. You can create a new codespace by browsing to one of the above repositories then then click on Code -> Create codespace on master and this will create and launch a fully configured IDE workspace for the repository.
Please note: building of the codespace might take some minutes. Once it has been started it will restart within seconds.
Once the contaner is up, you now have a fully configured IDE for GIF development at your hands. Happy coding!
Join us on Discord if you have any questions.