FVM Toolkit

The FVM toolkit consists of a collection of tools developed by ChainSafe for use with Filecoin and the Filecoin Virtual Machine. This toolkit hopes to facilitate developers who work with the Filecoin VM by providing:

1. A build tool that can:
   • compile an actor code to WASM in a ready-to-go bundle, with metadata to deploy to the backend;
   • provide scaffolding for a filecoin actor with readymade templates - (as a cargo plugin/extension); and,
   • Validate the created bundle.
2. Editor integration by means of hooking into the Language Server Protocol code action requests. This would facilitate:
   • Integration of most-valuable code action commands into a code editor;
   • Visualize gas traces as an overlay
   • Allow Rust developers to utilize their editor of choice as long as it supports the LSP.
3. A backend that works with the toolkit internals, the plumbing to the porcelain for the front-end that follows so to speak. This will use OpenAPI specifications so as to be extensible later. This will consist of the following:
   • API Gateway - This is the entrypoint to the toolbox itself. This will:
     • Define an API using OpenAPI.
     • Generate server using the OpenAPI Spec.
   • Network Management Toolkit
     • Local
     • Remote
     • Fork
     • Sandbox
   • Actor Management Toolkit
     • Actor Operations
     • Monitoring
4. A front-end, by means of a command-line-interface that can:
   • Integrate with the backend API, composing available commands (using JSON-RPC) for high-level tasks.

Architecture Diagram

Architecture Diagram