To install the Fuel toolchain, you can use the fuelup-init
script.
This will install forc
, forc-client
, forc-fmt
, forc-lsp
, forc-wallet
as well as fuel-core
in ~/.fuelup/bin
.
curl https://install.fuel.network | sh
Having problems? Visit the installation guide or post your question in our forum .
If you're using VSCode, we recommend installing the Sway extension .
fuelup
installed? If you already have fuelup
installed, run the commands below to make sure you are on the most up-to-date toolchain.
fuelup self update
fuelup update
fuelup default latest
Our frontend application will allow users to connect with a wallet, so you'll need to have a browser wallet installed.
Before going to the next steps, install the Fuel Wallet extension.
Once you've setup your wallet, click the "Faucet" button in the wallet to get some testnet tokens.
Additionally for this guide, ensure you're using Node.js/npm version 18.20.3 || ^20.0.0 || ^22.0.0
.
You can check your Node.js version with:
node -v
Start with a Fuel template and name it sway-store
.
pnpm create fuels --pnpm sway-store
Go into the sway-store
folder:
cd sway-store
There should already be a folder called sway-programs
inside, where your Sway programs will live. Ignore the other programs as we will only focus on the contract
program type in this tutorial. Move into your contract
folder:
cd sway-programs/contract
Open up the contract
folder in VSCode, and inside the src
folder you should see a file called main.sw
. This is where you will write your Sway contract.
Since we're creating a brand new contract you can delete everything in this file except for the contract
keyword.
contract;
The first line of the file is specifically reserved to inform the compiler whether we are writing a contract, script, predicate, or library. To designate the file as a contract, use the contract
keyword.