I couldn’t find any good documentation about it. I know that canisters can do import Canister "canister:<name>" to import another canister from the same dfx.json project. If the canister isn’t specified in the dfx.json, then the programmer can write something like: actor { public func main() :…

[image] jzxchiang: Gotcha. Does that mean it’s best not to use this import syntax at all, whether locally or in production? I think it simply doesn’t work yet, so yes :-). It is ok to use of you’d use a different build system than dfx that provides the Candid files for these canisters to the…

When is `import Canister "ic:<canister-id>"` used?

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kentosugama October 4, 2023, 7:32pm 6

Commenting this here in case anyone is reading in the future: Import canister QOL

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When is `import Canister "ic:<canister-id>"` used?

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