create-midnight-app-new

Scaffold a Midnight dApp project.

Usage

npx create-midnight-app-new my-project

What's included

| Directory | Description | |---|---| | midnight-local-network/ | Local Midnight node via Docker + wallet funding scripts | | midnight-starter-template/ | Counter dApp starter — smart contracts (Compact) + CLI + tests |

Prerequisites

• Node.js 20+
• Docker (for local network)
• Midnight Compact compiler (for contract compilation)

Quick start

npx create-midnight-app-new my-project

# Start local network
cd my-project/midnight-local-network
docker compose up -d
npm install && npm run fund

# Build contracts
cd ../midnight-starter-template/counter-contract
npm install && npm run build

# Run tests
cd ../counter-cli
npm install && npm test

Development

To update bundled templates from the repo:

cd create-midnight-app-new
bash sync-templates.sh
npm publish