Sandbox

Drogon provides a sandbox sub-command to create a local development node. This enables development and testing smart contracts on test network, before we proceed with mainnet.

drogon sandbox
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Usage: Drogon sandbox [options] [command]

Run a local network in the Drogon project

Options:
  -h, --help       display help for command

Commands:
  init [options]   initialize the local network
  start [options]  start the local network
  stop [options]   stop the local network
  help [command]   display help for command

The sandbox subcommands sets up the gochain-local docker container and creates a local network.

To initialize the local sandbox network:

# init sets up the dependencies
drogon sandbox init
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✨ Scaffolding done 🎉
Sandbox initialised

The init subcommand creates a folder inside your Drogon project and configures the Gochain network.

To start the sandbox, Drogon provides a start subcomand.

# start sub command starts the local network
drogon sandbox start
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/private/tmp/drogon-test./.drogon/sandbox/single

Drogon uses the .keystore.json file if available as the God wallet. If not it generates a new wallet with filename keystore.json inside the project's subfolder .drogon/sandbox/.