dApp Development Template/Scaffolding

[zakhap]

Description

Starting to build a full-stack dApp with all the fix-ins (contract + front-end, testing suite) should be as easy git clone edg-dapp.

Context

Inspired initially by Austin Griffith's Scaffold-ETH. And subsequently, this Substrate-Front-End-Template. If we want developers or hackers at hackathons to join the fun, we want to provide a ready-to-build framework for a chain-enable application. Tutorials we write for contracts can easily be extended by demonstrating the ease of building a front-end, an integrated process resulting in an useable application. Or even new tutorials can just use the repo so people following along end up with a working, testable, locally-deployed full-stack edg-dapp.

Austin has a youtube video where using Scaffold-ETH, he builds a minimum viable AMM in less than 10 minutes. This kind of media, I believe, would go a long way for the Edgeware ecosystem.

Blueprints

• Template contract with basic functionality, "fill features in here".
• Scripts to build+run local-testnet, deploy all contracts.
• Script that runs example tests for default-template contract.
• React App template that by default connects to local-testnet or mainnet,
• Script that runs local web-server and auto-refreshes front-end development, lints, etc.
• Tutorial for deploying the dApp: contract, front-end, + server hosting.

React app, "features I think are useful"

• Transaction monitoring Toast notifications,
• Simple Transaction Component, create transaction for X address (with input address),
• Polkadot.js pre-integrated (header component), "log in"/sign-transaction feature (for front-end feature enabling, not server-side),
• Wallet Balance Component,

Working Criteria

• [ ] Write a spec and post to Commonwealth
• [ ] Post bi-weekly updates on the thread for work done.
• [ ] Use a public repo in the Edgeware Builders organization.

Acceptance Criteria

• [ ] [Checkboxes for features that are necessary to this being completed]

Bounty

[Amount paid in EDG]