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@aztec/aztec
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Aztec is a package that allows for a simple development environment on Aztec stack. It creates a Private eXecution Environment (PXE) that listens for HTTP requests on `localhost:8080` by default. When started, it deploys all necessary L1 Aztec contracts a
Aztec is a package that allows for a simple development environment on Aztec stack. It creates a Private eXecution Environment (PXE) that listens for HTTP requests on localhost:8080 by default. When started, it deploys all necessary L1 Aztec contracts and then starts listening for RPC requests.
The easiest way to run is by using docker compose up. This will create two containers:
80808545You can also run it as a standalone node server with:
yarn start
It will look for a local Ethereum RPC to talk to but you can change this with the ETHEREUM_HOSTS environment variable.
The package also includes 2 examples. There are some system prerequisites that you will need to run these locally:
Before running locally you'll need to:
l1-contracts directory and run ./bootstrap.shyarn installyarn build
And you should be good to go!From the aztec directory, you can run the two existing examples:
yarn run:example:tokenyarn run:example:uniswapexport FORK_BLOCK_NUMBER=17514288
export FORK_URL=<YOUR_RPC_URL e.g. https://mainnet.infura.io/v3/API_KEY>
This package is set-up to be published on dockerhub by CI whenever there's a tagged release on master branch.
It's published under the tags aztecprotocol/aztec:latest & aztecprotocol/aztec:<version-tag>.
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Aztec is a package that allows for a simple development environment on Aztec stack. It creates a Private eXecution Environment (PXE) that listens for HTTP requests on `localhost:8080` by default. When started, it deploys all necessary L1 Aztec contracts a
The npm package @aztec/aztec receives a total of 3,434 weekly downloads. As such, @aztec/aztec popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @aztec/aztec demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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