Technical Resources

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• Theoretical documentation: includes resources for smart contract development, technical documentation directory, NEAR core development resources, and The Graph documentation for building subgraphs on NEAR.
• Synchronous support: offers developer office hours every weekday where DevRel and Community team members are available to answer questions.
• Asynchronous support: includes video tutorials on YouTube, active dev support on the NEAR Discord, and dev support on Telegram.
• Specific documentation related to gaming: includes resources for developing gaming projects on NEAR, such as how to and game economies.

We understand that the tech/dev side is fundamental to developing web3 projects and taking them to the next level. Below are a collection of some of the most commonly referenced and most sought after technichal resources to help you get started.

Theoretical Documentation

• Wallet Selector repo for integrating NEAR Wallets into your dApp
  • Guide for Wallet Selector
• NEAR SDK resources for smart contract development
• Technical Documentation Directory
• Near spec website
• Understanding NEAR Keys - deep dive into NEAR accounts, contracts, and keys.
• Create a NEAR App
• NEAR Core Development resources - useful if you want to develop at protocol level, or run a node.
• The Graph documentation for building subgraphs on NEAR
• Kurtosis - local development and testing environments for developers in the NEAR ecosystem

How to Run Nodes

• Local Node using near: If you want to run a node locally for testing (and don't have the space to download all the data) https://github.com/near/nearup
• Run RPC node using near: https://near-nodes.io/rpc/run-rpc-node-without-nearup (replace with validator node https://near-nodes.io/validator/validator-bootcamp for validator, custody partners or archival node for exchanges https://near-nodes.io/archival/run-archival-node-without-nearup)

Indexer

• near lake: https://github.com/near/near-lake-indexer
• docs: https://near-indexers.io/

NFTs

examples: Recur, Sweat

• Specification: NEP-171 (similar to ERC-721)

• NFT resources: RUST, JavaScript

• Tutorial: NFT Contracts

• Code example: https://github.com/near-examples/NFT

FTs

examples: Sweat, Circle

• Specification: NEP-141 (similar to ERC-20)

• FT resource: Introduction to FTs, FT Contracts Specs

• Tutorial: FT Contracts

• Code example: https://github.com/near-examples/FT

Asynchronous support

• Video Tutorials on YouTube
• Active dev support on the NEAR Discord
• Dev support Telegram

Specific Documentation related to Gaming

• How-To Article
• Game Economies