create-near-app VS near-cli

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.

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:

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-cli is a command line interface (CLI) for interacting with the NEAR blockchain. It was installed to the local node_modules folder when you ran yarn install, but for best ergonomics you may want to install it globally:

Make sure you have installed node js 12+, yarn and the latest near-cli.

Meanwhile Ledger seems to work with Firefox yet. Alternatively you can always use terminal with near-cli either official one near-cli-js or unofficial one near-cli-to

Recently started learning about Near Protocol and while I was completing the exercises at Near Academy, I got some error when I was trying to install near-cli on Arch Linux.