ICP Development Environment with Azle and React

This template gives you everything you need to build a full-stack Web3 application on the Internet Computer. It includes a frontend built with Vite and React, and a backend written in JS/TS (Azle).

Get started with one click:

In your browser:

In Gitpod

or GitHub Codespaces

Locally:

Make sure you have you have Docker and VS Code installed and running, then click the button below

🚀 Develop

When the editor opened, run the following commands to deploy the canisters and start a development server:

npm install # Install project dependencies
dfx deploy # Deploy canisters locally

npm start # Start the development server

The frontend will update automatically as you save changes. For the backend, run dfx deploy backend to redeploy. To redeploy all canisters (front- and backend), run dfx deploy.

When ready, run dfx deploy --network ic to deploy your application to the ICP mainnet.

🛠️ Technology Stack

• Vite: high-performance tooling for front-end web development
• React: a component-based UI library
• TypeScript: JavaScript extended with syntax for types
• Sass: an extended syntax for CSS stylesheets
• Azle CDK: the Canister Development Kit for JS/TS

📚 Documentation

• Internet Computer docs
• Internet Computer wiki
• Internet Computer forum
• Vite developer docs
• React quick start guide
• dfx.json reference schema
• Azle developer docs
• Developer Experience Feedback Board

💡 Tips and Tricks

• If the links printed by dfx do not work in Codespaces, run ./canister_urls.py and click the links shown there.
• If you get an error "Error: An error happened during communication with the replica: ... Connection refused", run dfx start --clean --background to start dfx