Welcome to Taqueria! This quickstart guide will teach you the fundamentals of using Taqueria in 10 minutes by going through the process of running some basic tasks in Taqueria from the CLI
What you will accomplish:
- Initialize a new Taqueria project
- Install plugins for LIGO, Flextesa, and Taquito
- Compile a LIGO smart contract
- Start a local Flextesa sandbox
- Originate the compiled smart contract to the sandbox
To successfully use Taqueria, you must ensure that:
- The Taqueria CLI has been installed and is available in your
$PATH
- Docker v0.8 or later is installed and currently running
- Node.js v16.3 or later
To start using Taqueria on a project, the project directory must be initialized by Taqueria. This process creates a hidden directory ./.taq
inside the project directory that contains the configuration and state files required by Taqueria, and ensures the required directories /contracts
, /artifacts
, and /tests
have been created
Taqueria provides the command init
which will create a new directory with the correct structure and configuration. To create a new Taqueria project called my-first-project
, run the command:
taq init my-first-project
:::caution If a project has already been initialized, Taqueria will not re-initialize the project, but will still return a success message. This will be fixed in an upcoming release :::
Now that the project has been properly initialized, plugins can be installed to provide support for specific functionality such as compilation, smart contract origination, or sandbox environments
Plugins are installed using the taq install [pluginName]
command (requires the project to be initialized). Once a plugin has been installed, it's tasks will become available in Taqueria
You can view the list of commands available in the current project context by running taq
from the command line
name | pluginName | description |
---|---|---|
LIGO | @taqueria/plugin-ligo |
A compiler for the LIGO smart contract language |
SmartPy | @taqueria/plugin-smartpy |
A compiler for the SmartPy contract language |
Flextesa | @taqueria/plugin-flextesa |
A sandbox test network running Tezos Flextesa |
Taquito | @taqueria/plugin-taquito |
A front-end Tezos framework used to originate |
Contract Types | @taqueria/plugin-contract-types |
A type generator that produces TS types from Michelson code |
Tezos Client | @taqueria/plugin-tezos-client |
Interacts with a Tezos node, providing simulation and type checking |
Jest | @taqueria/plugin-jest |
A Jest plugin for testing smart contracts |
To add support for the LIGO smart contract language, install the LIGO plugin by running:
taq install @taqueria/plugin-ligo
Once installed, the plugin provides the command taq compile
which when run, will look for any LIGO files in the /contracts
directory and compile them to Michelson .tz
files in the /artifacts
directory
To demonstrate this, create a file called counter.jsligo
in the /contracts
directory and insert the following JSLigo code:
type storage = int;
type parameter =
| ["Increment", int]
| ["Decrement", int]
| ["Reset"];
type return_ = [list <operation>, storage];
/* Two entrypoints */
let add = ([store, delta] : [storage, int]) : storage => store + delta;
let sub = ([store, delta] : [storage, int]) : storage => store - delta;
/* Main access point that dispatches to the entrypoints according to
the smart contract parameter. */
let main = ([action, store] : [parameter, storage]) : return_ => {
return [
(list([]) as list <operation>), // No operations
(match (action, {
Increment: (n: int) => add ([store, n]),
Decrement: (n: int) => sub ([store, n]),
Reset: () => 0}))
]
}
You can now compile this contract by running the following command from the project directory:
taq compile
Taqueria will then output a list of contracts compiled, and the artifacts created:
❯ taq compile
┌────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│ Contract │ Artifact │
├────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│ counter.jsligo │ artifacts/counter.tz │
└────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
If you open this file (/artifacts/counter.tz
), you can view the raw Michelson code which will later be originated to the sandbox:
{ parameter (or (or (int %decrement) (int %increment)) (unit %reset)) ;
storage int ;
code { UNPAIR ;
IF_LEFT { IF_LEFT { SWAP ; SUB } { ADD } } { DROP 2 ; PUSH int 0 } ;
NIL operation ;
PAIR } }
The next step is to install the Flextesa plugin which provides a local Tezos sandbox network:
taq install @taqueria/plugin-flextesa
Once installed, the plugin provides three commands to start, stop, and query a sandbox:
taq start sandbox [sandboxName]
taq stop sandbox [sandboxName]
taq list accounts [sandboxName]
:::note
Sandboxes are configured in the project's Taqueria configuration file (./.taq/config.json
). Each named sandbox configuration can then be called from the CLI.
By default, every Taqueria project comes pre-configured with a sandbox named local
:::
Start up the sandbox named local
by running:
taq start sandbox local
To confirm the sandbox is running, query the sandbox for the account information:
taq list accounts local
If successful, you will see a list of the accounts and balances specified in the config.json
file that have been created on the Tezos blockchain in the sandbox:
❯ taq list accounts local
┌─────────┬─────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Account │ Balance │ Address │
├─────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│ bob │ 3000 ꜩ │ tz1aSkwEot3L2kmUvcoxzjMomb9mvBNuzFK6 │
├─────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│ alice │ 2000 ꜩ │ tz1VSUr8wwNhLAzempoch5d6hLRiTh8Cjcjb │
├─────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│ john │ 4000 ꜩ │ tz1Zwoh1QCVAvJ4sVTojMp9pLYp6Ji4NoZy6 │
├─────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│ jane │ 5000 ꜩ │ tz1aHUAC4oviwJuZF1EvVSvFz7cu9KMNYBph │
├─────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│ joe │ 1000 ꜩ │ tz1MVGjgD1YtAPwohsSfk8i3ZiT1yEGM2YXB │
└─────────┴─────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┘
With a sandbox now running, the next step is to originate the counter.tz
file to the sandbox network using the Taquito plugin
First, install the plugin:
taq install @taqueria/plugin-taquito
Next, you need to configure some values for origination:
- The initial storage for the smart contract
- The name of the sandbox to target (by default it is pre-configured to the sandbox named
local
) :::note As the default configuration comes with the sandbox namedlocal
preconfigured, simply provide a value for the initial storage in the"storage"
property :::
To set these values in Taqueria, navigate to the file ./.taq/config.json
and locate the "environment"
property. For the counter.tz
contract, simply need to provide an integer value for the counter.tz
file which looks like this:
"environment": {
"default": "development",
"development": {
"networks": [],
"sandboxes": [
"local"
],
"storage": {
"counter.tz": 42
}
}
},
Now you can originate the contract by running:
taq originate
This will originate all contracts in the /artifacts
directory to the sandbox and return the on-chain addresses for the originated contracts. This will look something like this:
┌────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────┐
│ Contract │ Address │ Destination │
├────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│ counter.tz │ KT1Ayz8qos7G4U3Jucp6QWoM7ayhbShNXcat │ local │
└────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────┘
Congratulations! At this point, you have run through the basic usage of Taqueria
For more details on the usage of specific Taqueria tasks, you can refer to the plugin documentation which contains additional context, configuration, and usage of the many Taqueria tasks; or continue on with the getting started guides