Create-ao-contract NPM

Create AO Contract

A CLI tool for scaffolding AO contracts, featuring:

🧪 Testing: Busted and WAO for testing
🛠️ Development Tools: arweave for testing, formatting and linting
📦 Deployment: Seamless deployment using ao-deploy

Usage

Interactive

To scaffold an AO contract interactively, run the following command based on your package manager of choice:

npm

npx create-ao-contract@latest
# or
npm create ao-contract@latest

yarn

yarn create ao-contract

pnpm

pnpm create ao-contract@latest

bun

bunx create-ao-contract@latest
# or
bun create ao-contract@latest

During the interactive setup, you'll be prompted for your project's name and other configuration options. Provide your choices to create a new AO contract.

Note: For windows users using a secure shell, ensure your ssh-agent is running as expected for successfull installation of dependencies.

Non-interactive

For a non-interactive setup, use command line arguments. You can view available options with:

create-ao-contract --help

Options

Usage: create-ao-contract [dir] [options]

A CLI for creating an AO contract

Arguments:
  dir            The name of the contract, as well as the name of the directory to create

Options:
  --noGit        Explicitely tell the CLI to not initialize a new git repo in the project (default: false)
  --noInstall    Explicitely tell the CLI to not run the package manager's install command (default: false)
  -y, --default  Bypass the CLI and Use default options to bootstrap a new AO contract. Note: Default options can be overridden by user-provided options.
                 (default: false)
  -v, --version  Display the version number
  -h, --help     display help for command

Example Commands

Quickly scaffold an AO contract using the CLI with the default options by running:

npx create-ao-contract@latest -y
# or
yarn create ao-contract -y
# or
pnpm create ao-contract@latest -y
# or
bunx create-ao-contract@latest -y

Override the default options by passing other options:

npx create-ao-contract@latest my-ao-contract --noGit --default
# or
yarn create ao-contract my-ao-contract --noGit --default
# or
pnpm create ao-contract@latest my-ao-contract --noGit --default
# or
bunx create-ao-contract@latest my-ao-contract --noGit --default