The sui-test-validator starts a local network that includes a Sui Full node, a Sui validator, a Sui faucet and (optionally) an indexer.

Guide

Refer to sui-local-network.md

Experimental Feature - Running with Indexer

Note Similar to the fullnode db, all state will be wiped upon restart

1. Follow the Prerequisites section in the sui-indexer README to set up the postgresdb on your local machine
2. Make sure the Posgresdb starts on your local machine
3. run RUST_LOG="consensus=off" ./target/debug/sui-test-validator --with-indexer
4. To check your local db, if you use the default db url postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/sui_indexer, you can login to the postgres database and run \dt to show all tables.

Run with a persisted state

You can combine this with indexer runs as well to save a persisted state on local developement.

1. Generate a config to store db and genesis configs sui genesis -f --with-faucet --working-dir=[some-directory]
2. sui-test-validator --config-dir [some-directory]