Kite: the modern TypeScript client for Solana Kit 🪁

Kite is the oldest, most documented and most developer-efficient client for Solana Kit, requiring significantly less code than every other Solana client, including Framework Kit, Gill and web3.js.

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Features

• Write half the code of alternatives - Clean, intuitive APIs mean less boilerplate and fewer bugs in your production apps
• Ship faster with single-line operations - Create funded wallets, send tokens, create tokens, and make arbitrary transactions without the boilerplate of lower-level clients
• 5 example projects and 6+ video tutorials and hand written editor docs show you how to build production-ready Solana apps
• Never get locked in - Built on Solana Kit with identical types, so you can drop down to connection.rpc whenever you need full control
• Use as a plugin - Kite 3.0+ implements the Solana Kit plugin pattern, making it composable with other plugins while maintaining the simple convenience API

Quick Start

import { connect } from "solana-kite";

const connection = connect("devnet");
const wallet = await connection.createWallet();

Plugin Usage (New in 3.0)

Kite can now be used as a Solana Kit plugin, allowing composition with other plugins:

import { createSolanaRpc, createDefaultRpcTransport } from "@solana/kit";
import { createKitePlugin } from "solana-kite";

const transport = createDefaultRpcTransport({ url: "https://api.devnet.solana.com" });
const rpc = createSolanaRpc(transport);
const connection = rpc.use(createKitePlugin({ clusterNameOrURL: "devnet" }));

Both approaches provide the same functionality. The connect() convenience function is a drop-in replacement for Kite 2.x projects.

Solana Kite website

Documentation

npm

GitHub

Example Projects

Videos

Kite on Solana Stack Exchange

Changelog