Axelar Local Dev: Near Integration

This package enables you to set up a local development environment for cross-chain communication with the NEAR Protocol. Presently, we offer support for general message passing between NEAR and EVM chains (Note: Aptos support is yet to be implemented).

Installation

To install this package, use the following command:

npm install @axelar-network/axelar-local-dev-near

Configuration

To utilize the NEAR chain stack alongside the EVM chain stack, you will need to adjust the createAndExport function in your script. Specifically, create a NearRelayer instance and integrate it with your existing EVM relayer. Here's an example of how you might adjust the configuration:

const nearRelayer = new NearRelayer();
const relayers = { evm: new EvmRelayer({ nearRelayer }), near: nearRelayer };

Please refer to our Standalone Environment Setup Guide for further details on configuring the createAndExport function.

API Reference

NEAR local development enviroment is based on near-workspaces-js and NearNetwork is an extension of Worker (available in near-workspaces-js package). NearNetwork includes everything that Worker has and some additional funcionalities:

• createAccountAndDeployContract(accountId: string, contractWasmPath: string, nearAmount = 200): Allows user to quickly create a new NEAR account with a specified amount of NEAR (default - 200 NEAR) and deploy contract to it.

• callContract(account: NearAccount, contract: NearAccount, method: string, args: any, amount = 0): This method needs to be used to do any contract calls, it takes the account that will call the contract, contract that we want to call, method that we want to call, args and amount of NEAR that we wish to attach to the call.

• stopNetwork(): Needs to be called at the end of the script, so it stops the near-sandbox process which is a local mini-NEAR blockchain.

Additionaly we export a utility function:

• createNearNetwork(config?: Config): Creates an instance of NearNetwork and starts the near-sandbox process. It can take a Config object as described in near-workspaces-js.