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Deploy anchor and nextjs

Aswin Pyakurel

This is a general guide on how to deploy an anchor smart contract on the Solana blockchain, get the program ID and use it in the client-side with NextJS to interact with the smart contract.

Here is a step by step guide:

  1. Install Anchor CLI - Anchor is a framework for building Solana blockchain apps, it provides a CLI tool that helps developers to create, test, and deploy Solana smart contracts. You can install it by following the installation guide https://project-serum.github.io/anchor/getting-started/installation.html
  2. Create a new Anchor project - Once you have Anchor CLI installed on your machine, you can create a new Anchor project by running the following command in the terminal anchor init my-project. This will create a new Anchor project in a directory named my-project.
  3. Write your smart contract - After initializing your project, you can open the my-project/program/src/lib.rs file and write your smart contract code. You can use the Anchor's APIs to define your program instructions.
  4. Build and deploy your smart contract - Once you have written your smart contract code, you can use the Anchor CLI to build and deploy your program to the Solana blockchain. To build your program, run anchor build in the project directory. To deploy your program, run anchor deploy in the project directory. This will deploy your program to the Solana blockchain network and return the program ID.
  5. Use the program ID in the client-side - In order to interact with your smart contract from the client-side, you will need to get the program ID. You can get it by running anchor program-id in the project directory. This will return the program ID, which you can use to interact with the smart contract from the client-side.
  6. Use the program ID in NextJS - Now that you have the program ID, you can use it in your NextJS application to interact with your smart contract. You can use the @solana/web3.js library to connect to the Solana blockchain network and communicate with your smart contract. You can import the library in your NextJS project and use it to interact with the smart contract by specifying the program ID and the instructions you want to execute.

That's it! You have successfully deployed an anchor smart contract on the Solana blockchain, got the program ID, and used it in the client-side with NextJS to interact with the smart contract.


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