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Part 1: using Midnight

In this first part of the Midnight developer tutorial, you will:

  1. Learn to install and configure the components needed to connect to the Midnight network
  2. Acquire some tDUST to pay for transactions on the network
  3. Run a DApp that connects to the network and performs a transaction.

When you are done with part 1, you will have connected to the Midnight network and made real changes to the Testnet blockchain ledger.

Remember, if you run into any problems, ask for help using the pathways described in the getting help section.

Prerequisites for part 1

In part 1 of the tutorial, you will not yet install everything needed to be a Midnight developer. Instead, at this point, you will install what is needed to be a Midnight user. Each part of the tutorial begins by guiding you to satisfy the prerequisites for that part, assuming you have already completed the preceding parts.

Supported platforms​

These instructions have been tested on recent versions of macOS and various Linux distributions. Development on Windows has been tested using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), specifically Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.90.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64).

Docker​

A working Docker installation is needed to continue with this tutorial. The easiest and recommended installation is Docker Desktop.

Check that you can invoke Docker. If you type the following at a shell prompt, you should see a recent version number, such as 24.0.5.

docker --version

List available images from Midnight docker repository.

docker search midnightnetwork

You can also manually add our images through Docker Desktop.

If you cannot complete this step, contact the Midnight DevRel team, as described in the getting help section.