Community tutorials

This repository contains different tutorials submitted by community members. Tutorials will be referenced in the zkSync Era documentation website.

We encourage authors to keep their tutorials updated.

zkSync Tutorials

For tutorials created and maintained by the zkSync team, check out this repository here.

Tutorial requirements

• All tutorials must showcase how to develop applications on zkSync Era.
• Tutorials must take a neutral stance and refrain from promoting projects.
• Tutorials must be an original and NOT a work that was previously published.
• You must be the rightful intellectual property owner (author) of your submission.
• Tutorials can contain relevant external sources, only when referenced accordingly.
• Tutorials must have working code to support the tutorial.
• Tutorials must be provided following the guidelines in this repository.

Tutorial guidelines

• Create a new folder inside tutorials with the name of your tutorial in kebab-case, e.g. my-awesome-tutorial.
• In this folder, create a TUTORIAL.md. The tutorial must follow this structure:
  • Title (Level 1 heading)
  • Introduction (Level 3 heading): explain what is going to be built in this tutorial.
  • Prerequisites (Level 2 heading): system and technical requirements. Indicate the specific versions of packages and compilers used to build the project.
  • Build time! (Level 2 heading): step-by-step details on how to build the project.
    • Step 1 — Doing the First Thing (Level 3 heading)
    • Step 2 — Doing the Next Thing (Level 3 heading)
    • Step n — Doing the Last Thing (Level 3 heading)
  • Conclusion (Level 2 heading): summarize what the reader has accomplished by following your tutorial.
• Create a code folder with any code to support the tutorial.
• Create an images folder with any images to support the tutorial.
  • If your tutorial contains images, make sure to compress them using https://squoosh.app/ before adding them to the images folder.
• Add the tutorial details to the tutorials.json file. Each tutorial must have:

{
    "title": "", // 60 characters max
    "description": "", // 280 characters max
    "tags": [ // 4 tags max. Examples: oracles, devtools, nfts, tokens, indexers,
      "",
      ""
    ],
    "time": "", // time taken to complete tutorial in hours, e.g. "1 hour", "2 to 4 hours"
    "author": "", // person, project, or company
    "slug": "" // the tutorial folder name inside `/tutorials`
  }

Use the TUTORIAL_TEMPLATE and zksync-cli-quickstart tutorial as a reference.

How to submit a tutorial

• Clone this repo.
• Create a new branch and add your tutorial following the guidelines.
• Make sure your tutorial follows the requirements
• Create a pull request.

Linting, Formatting, and Spell Check

Before submitting your tutorial, ensure that your content adheres to the repository's standards by running the following checks:

• Formatting with Prettier: yarn lint:fmt
• Spell Check: yarn lint:spell - If lint:spell doesn't recognize a word, and you’re sure that it’s correct, consider adding it to cspell-zksync.txt.
• Linting: yarn lint:mdl