Devcontainers
In Visual Studio Code, you use a container as a full-featured development environment. As of September 2023, one MultiversX devcontainer is available:
- MultiversX: Smart Contracts Development (Rust). This one includes mxpy, Rust, sc-meta, the MultiversX IDE (Visual Studio Code extension) etc.
The devcontainers for MultiversX are maintained in mx-template-devcontainers.
Before setting up a MultiversX devcontainer, make sure to follow these tutorials:
Once you're accustomed to the concept, follow the steps below to set up a MultiversX devcontainer:
- In Visual Studio Code, open the Command Palette (e.g.
Ctrl + Shift + P
) and selectDev Containers: New Dev Container
; - When prompted, select
MultiversX: Smart Contracts Development (Rust)
, or any other devcontainer you want to use; - When prompted, select
Trust @multiversx
; - Enter a name for your devcontainer.
Once the development environment is ready, do a quick exploration exercise. For example, run the following commands in the terminal (within Visual Studio Code):
mxpy --version
sc-meta --version
Using the Docker images without VSCode
If you'd like to use the development Docker image(s) without VSCode's devcontainers feature, this is entirely possible. For example, let's try the following (in any terminal):
docker run --rm -it multiversx/devcontainer-smart-contracts-rust:latest mxpy --version
docker run --rm -it multiversx/devcontainer-smart-contracts-rust:latest sc-meta --version
For a set of real-world examples, please follow this.