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Who is this for?

The short answer is: Anyone with an interest in NEAR Protocol.

You may be a designer, developer, student, manager, engineer, artist, researcher, or you come from any other background. We are glad that you found your path to exploring what NEAR is all about!

• Develop a NEAR App
• Run a NEAR Validator
• Integrate with NEAR
• Contribute to NEAR

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If you're not sure what NEAR Protocol is, you should start with a soft intro.

• What's NEAR?

Before we begin, it will be helpful to have a general understanding of:

• Smart Contract Basics
• NEAR Smart Contract Development Overview

Quick Start

The quickest way to get started is by looking at our examples and exploring the code in gotpod (online IDE). Take a look at our examples.

If you want to build locally, take a look at:

• Local development guide

Looking to start writing smart contracts? Take a look at:

• Writing Contracts on NEAR
• Calling Contracts on NEAR

In this section, you will also find more information on Near-specific methods and functions.

To learn more about becoming a validator, checkout the validator section:

• Running a node

Tutorials

important The examples below are currently outdated. We are working on updating our tutorials. Meanwhile, please have a look at our example applications that showcase different smart contract functionality.

The Tutorials section contains several tutorials which will help you learn how to build, test and deploy smart contracts.

We recommend you start with the Zero to Hero tutorial which will show you how to save complex data structures to the blockchain, and bridge on-chain and off-chain services.

• Zero to Hero: Building an Oracle
• Create your own ERC-20 token smart contract
• Writing contracts that talk to each other

An most importantly, we will show you how to test your smart contracts:

• Test your smart contracts

API Documentation

Here are the reference docs for all of our supported libraries. We actively support an AssemblyScript runtime (TypeScript -> WASM compiler), a Rust runtime, the base RPC and a JavaScript library. These docs are auto-generated and less user-friendly! They should be used for advanced users and those who need to look up how something works.

• AssemblyScript Contracts -- covers the same topic, but for AssemblyScript
• RPC -- covers the actual core API responses and actions you can call
• near-api-js -- is autogenerated documentation for the JavaScript integration library
• Rust Contracts -- covers the API for creating apps with Rust

Support & Community

If you have any questions about NEAR, you can get direct access to the team behind it and other members of the community through Discord.

To find more about on how YOU can get involved, please checkout our community section!