Getting started with Kit
A step-by-step guide to grasp the basics of Kit
In this series of articles, we'll build a simple application that creates a new Solana token and retrieves its information. Along the way, we'll explore some of the core concepts of the Kit library and learn how to use it to send transactions and read data from the Solana blockchain.
Let's start by setting up our project!
You can find all the articles of this series listed below.
Set up your project
Set up the environment and prepare a personalised client object
Generate a signer
Create a new keypair signer and airdrop lamports to it
Create instructions
Build instructions that create a new Solana token
Build a transaction
Construct a new transaction message and sign it
Send a transaction
Send a transaction to the blockchain and wait for its confirmation
Fetch an account
Fetch and decode on-chain accounts