As an unexperienced starting developer I find that learning Motoko isn’t as hard as actually wrapping my head around the broader pallet of technologies used on the front end. The assets canister in the hello world (and the declarations) contains Candid, .js and .ts files. Also we find webpack and n…

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It would be great to get a minimum viable app that was just html + the agent.js required to talk to the ic. There are so many tiny apps that could be done. With http_request_upgrade we could even see some pure html form based apps.

[image] paulyoung: Also: Create a new project :point_right: npm init ic Thank you! Will try out later today I hope.

Thank you for the resources. What is a good place to start learning about how javascript or typescript are used to read in the Candid interface file and use it to communicate with the IC? I’m a details kind of a guy

I think dfx creates a copy:types entry under scripts in package.json which copies from .dfx/<network>/canisters. If you look in that directory, probably .dfx/local/canisters, each canister has a directory that contains generated JavaScript. So, JavaScript isn’t used to read the Candid file, but ra…

@bobbylingus I’ve written a bit on this topic - although I haven’t published it as official docs yet. Feedback is appreciated! [image] Using JavaScript with the Internet Computer A first draft of documentation about the how the JavaScript Agent works, our recommended workflows, and how t…

This page is a handy reference for which types to use, also linked in Kyle’s article above: https://smartcontracts.org/docs/current/references/candid-ref/#supported-types Check the “Corresponding JavaScript values” under each entry.

I finished my draft a while ago and published Internet Computer Content Validation Bootstrap Just wanted to update this thread

That link doesnt work for me :confused:

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Also: Create a new project 👉 npm init ic

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