Maybe this is why the coin tanked. It sounds like a cool idea, the website talks about the front-end full-stack arm-and-a-leg fees type lechery that exists on the web right now, but can’t link to a tutorial about how to use this thing if you’re a beginner. Most people are not blockchain developers. …

Hey there, Guest! I’m on the Developer Experience team, and you’re exactly the sort of user that I feel most responsible for. Some great new docs are on the way, but let me try to get you what you need to get started. Serving my html files Our official docs for this are here: https://sdk.dfinity.…

Kyle, If you expect to gain the support of the developer community for this language, it seems like Dfinity is going to have tor harder generating support materials that help somebody new to the platform do useful work, quickly. Right now the documentation is very thin, and the support is not so g…

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Great tutorial, thanks. Could you do an update/follow-up on how deployment works now after genesis happend? Note from the tutorial: after Genesis, you will have to set up and fund your canister before you’ll be able to deploy

Who do you think you are, [name redacted] from comms? Don’t worry, the Developer Experience team working on a proper guide. In short – Wallet is funded for me If your principal has been added, all you need to do is run: dfx identity set-wallet {wallet id} dfx deploy --network ic If you are start…

Cool, thanks a lot - looking forward to the guide as I am still confused with the terms principal, controller etc.

Principal refers to the long hyphenated strings that you see in URLs before ic0.app. They generally represent canisters, your development machine, or an Internet Identity, and can be used interchangeably as some way to consistently refer to an entity on the IC. A controller is just a Principal that…

Kyle, I am struggling with deciphering your instructions. I created a canister on NNS and funded it. I also added my developer id as a controller. Then @ dfx prompt, I don’t understand your commands: ``` dfx identity deploy-wallet {empty canister id} followed by dfx identity set-wallet {newly cr…

Sorry you’re struggling with the docs - it’s a wide surface area and I and a number of us are gradually working on improvements right now. Let’s see what I can help with here - Empty canister id When you create a canister using the NNS app or the ledger, it is considered empty - it doesn’t have …

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