README.md

solana-anchor-client-start

This project demonstrates the code needed to call a live deployed Solana program built with the Anchor framework.

There are many examples of how to use the Anchor framework when building your own program, though often you may want to call existing program on the Solana blockchain.

Here's a good place to start.

This project demonstrates:

• connecting to Solana network
• automatically downloading a program's interface (IDL)
• calling the program from a Node-based TypeScript program (though this same code will run in the front-end as well)

What program are we going to call?

The Solana program we'll call is a basic Clicker game. The complete project is at https://github.com/briangershon/solana-clicker-game/.

This example code will download all the Clicker games played. Each game includes the player's publicKey and their score ("number of clicks").

First 3 Solana Clicker games:

[
  {
    "playerPublicKey": "8QzheFjSyu5Lk9a8u9sj9Nm2WDofm3ru28w4amBXokpC",
    "clicks": 0
  },
  {
    "playerPublicKey": "2CT3GsMffomxM132NEzWgDH7Efa7PtQR14HKudJohEmF",
    "clicks": 4
  },
  {
    "playerPublicKey": "GFC2jtciuWfgxZ7WoA9xwxkr6ZbXS1cPg3rWw36KMbqR",
    "clicks": 1
  }
]

How to run

1. Copy .env.sample to .env and add a Solana Provider pointing to devnet. An example provider is Alchemy.com.

2. Run npm start.