create-near-app VS near-api-js

Compare create-near-app vs near-api-js and see what are their differences.

create-near-app

Create a starter app hooked up to the NEAR blockchain (by near)

near-api-js

JavaScript library to interact with NEAR Protocol via RPC API (by near)
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create-near-app near-api-js
3 1
328 372
0.6% 0.8%
7.8 9.0
6 days ago 7 days ago
TypeScript TypeScript
MIT License MIT License
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create-near-app

Posts with mentions or reviews of create-near-app. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-07.
  • Building a Full Stack NFT Market Place with Near Protocol and React.js
    6 projects | dev.to | 7 Apr 2022
    For this guide, I decided to build an NFT Market Place using Near Protocol, although there is a much faster way of setting up a near project using create-near-app, I wanted to put the pieces together to make it easier to understand.
  • Building dApp with Near Protocol and React
    5 projects | dev.to | 3 Dec 2021
    For near dapps there is a npx binary create-near-app. It has some options to choose what type of frontend you are going to use and also what type of smart contract you are going to use. Here are the option you can use:
  • Building a Voting Smart Contract with Near Protocol and Typescript
    6 projects | dev.to | 25 Nov 2021
    That's it, now you can try to build some nice web app to have a frontend application which can use your smart contract. Usefull library to get started with the js api for building near web apps is near-api-js or if you're familiar with react you can use create-near-app library. Good luck!

near-api-js

Posts with mentions or reviews of near-api-js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-25.
  • Building a Voting Smart Contract with Near Protocol and Typescript
    6 projects | dev.to | 25 Nov 2021
    That's it, now you can try to build some nice web app to have a frontend application which can use your smart contract. Usefull library to get started with the js api for building near web apps is near-api-js or if you're familiar with react you can use create-near-app library. Good luck!

What are some alternatives?

When comparing create-near-app and near-api-js you can also consider the following projects:

berry - 📦🐈 Active development trunk for Yarn ⚒

lisk-sdk - 🔩 Lisk software development kit

near-tutorial

near-voting-app-smart-contract-tutorial - Tutorial for building Near Protocol Smart Contract for a Voting App

near-wallet - Web wallet for NEAR Protocol which stores keys in browser's localStorage

nft-tutorial

near-cli - General purpose command line tools for interacting with NEAR Protocol

hardhat - Hardhat is a development environment to compile, deploy, test, and debug your Ethereum software.

react-gh-pages - Deploying a React App (created using create-react-app) to GitHub Pages