BasilicEVM: Modern EVM Development Stack

Overview

BasilicEVM is a comprehensive development stack designed for building modern, performant, and scalable EVM-based applications. It combines cutting-edge web technologies with robust blockchain integration, providing developers with a powerful toolkit for creating decentralized applications (dApps) and DeFi platforms. Leveraging the best and fastest development tools, BasilicEVM ensures a smooth and efficient development process, enabling teams to focus on building innovative Web3 products.

Features

• 🔄 0x Integration: Built-in support for 0x API v2, enabling secure, gasless asset transfers, swaps, and liquidity aggregation.

• 📊 Codex Integration: Streamline your dApp's data management and indexing with Codex, optimizing performance and ensuring scalability.

• 🧩 Modular Architecture: Flexible and modular architecture allows for easy customization and extension based on your specific project needs.

• 🛠️ TypeScript SDK: A robust TypeScript SDK for interacting with 0x, ensuring type safety and a smooth developer experience.

• 👛 Wallet Integration: Out-of-the-box wallet integration for secure transactions and user authentication.

• ⚡ Efficient Dev Workflow: State-of-the-art devtools and workflows for rapid prototyping, testing, and deployment.

• 🔨 Hardhat: Robust framework for EVM smart contract development, testing, and deployment.

• 🤖 AI-Assisted Development: Clear conventions and AI-assisted development using cursor.so and v0.dev.

• 📚 Documentation: Detailed documentation covering project structure, conventions, and best practices.

The BasilicEVM Stack

At its core, the BasilicEVM Stack leverages:

• Turbo Monorepo: Efficient codebase management and optimized build processes for large-scale projects.
• Bun: Ultra-fast JavaScript runtime, package manager, and build tool, enhancing development speed and efficiency.
• Biome: Modern, fast, and extensible toolchain for web projects, providing linting, formatting, and more.
• Hardhat: Robust framework for EVM smart contract development, testing, and deployment.
• Next.js 14: Cutting-edge full-stack development with React Server Components, App Router, and server actions.
• Tailwind CSS & shadcn/ui: Rapid, customizable UI development with utility-first CSS and accessible component primitives.
• EVM Integration:
  • viem: Type-safe, lightweight library for low-level EVM interactions.
  • wagmi: React hooks for seamless EVM integration.
  • Rainbow Kit: Polished, customizable wallet connection UI for enhanced user experience.
  • Codex API: Integration with codex.io for enhanced blockchain data and insights.
  • 0x: Powerful, flexible, and efficient Ethereum development framework for building decentralized applications.

Project Structure

For detailed information on each component, please refer to their respective README files.

Applications

• Webapp (/apps/web): Main front-end application. Details

Packages

• Errors (/packages/errors): Errors package. Details
• Tokens (/packages/tokens): Supported tokens. Details
• Utils (/packages/utils): Shared utilities. Details

Services

• Trigger (/services/trigger): Background tasks and event-driven jobs. Details
• Alchemy (/services/alchemy): Blockchain event listeners and data indexing. Details
• 0x API (/services/0x-api): SDK for 0x API v2 integration. Details

Tooling

• TypeScript Config (/tooling/tsconfig): Shared TypeScript configurations.

Hardhat (/hardhat)

Contains configurations and scripts for smart contract development, testing, and deployment. More details

Development Conventions and AI Workflow

We leverage various AI-powered tools to enhance development speed and efficiency:

1. Cursor.so AI Editor: Our primary code editor for AI-assisted development. Our code style guidelines are detailed in the .cursorrules file. It is crucial that all team members read and understand these conventions to maintain consistency and efficiency in our development process.

   Key Cursor.so commands:

   • Prompt an edit: Highlight code and press Cmd+K
   • Accept autocomplete: Press Tab when a suggestion appears
   • Ask a question: Use Cmd+L to open chat, @ to import files/docs
   • Focus AI on code: Highlight code and press Cmd+Shift+L

   For more features, visit cursor.sh/features. For support, post on forum.cursor.sh.

   We recommend using the Claude Sonnet API key in Cursor settings, as this model has shown superiority when dealing with code.

2. v0.dev: We use this tool to rapidly generate markup for components, streamlining UI development.

3. postgres.new: This tool assists in database work, allowing for quick schema design and query testing.

These AI-powered tools significantly accelerate our development process, enabling us to focus more on core functionality and complex problem-solving.

Installation

1. Install Bun globally:

   curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash

2. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/basilic-eth.git
   cd basilic-eth

3. Install dependencies and start the development server:

   bun install
   bun dev

This setup provides a faster JavaScript runtime and efficient package management for enhanced development efficiency.

Key Benefits

BasilicEVM provides a state-of-the-art architecture, carefully curated tech stack, and industry-leading patterns and practices, allowing developers to:

1. Focus on Features: By providing a robust, pre-configured development environment, BasilicEVM enables teams to concentrate on building unique features and business logic rather than setting up infrastructure.

2. Reduce Time to Market: With its optimized toolchain and ready-to-use components, BasilicEVM significantly accelerates the development process, helping projects launch faster and iterate more quickly.

3. Ensure Best Practices: The stack incorporates established best practices for EVM development, security, and performance, reducing the risk of common pitfalls and vulnerabilities.

4. Scale Efficiently: The modular architecture and performance-optimized tools allow applications to scale seamlessly as user bases grow.

5. Maintain Consistency: Shared configurations and standardized patterns across the monorepo ensure code consistency and ease of maintenance.

By leveraging BasilicEVM, development teams can bypass the time-consuming process of assembling and integrating a modern Web3 stack, instead diving directly into creating innovative blockchain-based solutions with confidence.

References

• Introducing BasilicEVM
• 0x Protocol Gasless API Documentation
• 0x Protocol Gasless API Guides
• EIP-2771: Secure Protocol for Native Meta Transactions
• Codex API Documentation
• TypeScript tooling for Ethereum
• Comparing Ethers.js and Viem/Wagmi

Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community. Whether it's code contributions, feedback, or suggestions, your input is valuable to us.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.