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Sui Move Lecture #1 Setup your development environment

Lecture 1: Setup your development environment

Install Sui Binary

Info: The following instructions are based on official guides here

  1. Install Dependency

    Check the official doc here to install the necessary dependencies. Please note that the dependencies vary for different operation systems.

  2. Install Sui binary

    Run `cargo install`

    cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/MystenLabs/sui.git --tag sui-v1.0.0 sui

    and it will be saved at `$HOME/.cargo/bin/sui`

  3. Build after the codebase is downloaded

    # binary will be generated under sui/target/release，

git clone https://github.com/MystenLabs/sui.git

cd sui/

git checkout sui-v1.0.0-release

cargo build --release

  4. Verify install

sui -V

Once you see the version information, you are all done!

Congrats!

Sui Move IDE

https://www.movestudio.dev/

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How to use sui cli?

You can read the complete documentation here

  • Create new address

    sui client new-address secp256k1

    The command returns a new address and the 24-word recovery phrase for it.

  • Check all your address

    the following command returns the list of account addresses available on the platform:

The response resembles the following:

0x008e9c621f4fdb210b873aab59a1e5bf32ddb1d33ee85eb069b348c234465106
0x011a285261b9f8d10a0c7ecb4c0dbe6d396825768dba38c3056809472736e521
0x4ab708d1a4160fa0fdbf359691764e16380444ddb48d2b8856a169594a9baa55
0xa3c00467938b392a12355397bdd3d319cea5c9b8f4fc9c51b46b8e15a807f030
0xa56612ad4f5dbc04c651e8d20f56af3316ee6793335707f29857bacabf9127d0 <=

The <= indicates the active address.

You can switch to a different address.

Manage Networks

  • Add devnet

sui client new-env --alias devnet --rpc https://fullnode.devnet.sui.io:443

  • Add testnet

    sui client new-env --alias testnet --rpc https://fullnode.testnet.sui.io:443

Get devnet token

curl --location --request POST 'https://faucet.devnet.sui.io/gas' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-raw '{"FixedAmountRequest":{"recipient":"<WALLET ADDRESS>"}}'

Switch to devnet env

sui client switch --env devnet

Check gas balance

sui client gas <wallet-address>

In this lecture, you learned how to install Sui and use basic Sui client commands. Stay tuned for our next tutorial!

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