👋 Welcome! This demo app was created to help you learn how to build on Flow.

• Kitty Items is a complete NFT marketplace built with Cadence, Flow's resource-oriented smart contract programming language.
• Learn how to deploy contracts, mint NFTs, and integrate user wallets with the Flow Client Library (FCL).

🎬 Live Demo

Check out the live demo of Kitty Items, deployed on IPFS and the Flow Testnet.

✨ Getting Started

1. Install the Flow CLI

Before you start, install the Flow command-line interface (CLI).

⚠️ This project requires flow-cli v0.15.0 or above.

2. Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/onflow/kitty-items.git

3. Create a Flow Testnet account

You'll need a Testnet account to work on this project. Here's how to make one:

Generate a key pair

Generate a new key pair with the Flow CLI:

flow keys generate

⚠️ Make sure to save these keys in a safe place, you'll need them later.

Create your account

Go to the Flow Testnet Faucet to create a new account. Use the public key from the previous step.

Save your keys

After your account has been created, save the address and private key to the following environment variables:

# Replace these values with your own!
export FLOW_ADDRESS=0xabcdef12345689
export FLOW_PRIVATE_KEY=xxxxxxxxxxxx

4. Deploy the contracts

flow project deploy --network=testnet

5. Run the API

After the contracts are deployed, follow the Kitty Items API instructions to install and run the Kitty Items API. This backend service is responsible for initializing accounts, minting NFTs, and processing events.

6. Launch the web app

Lastly, follow the Kitty Items Web instructions to launch the Kitty Items front-end React app.

Project Overview

🔎 Legend

Above is a basic diagram of the parts of this project contained in each folder, and how each part interacts with the others.

1. Web App (Static website) | kitty-items/web

A true dapp, client-only web app. This is a complete web application built with React that demonstrates how to build a static website that can be deployed to an environment like IPFS and connects directly to the Flow blockchain using @onflow/fcl. No servers required. @onflow/fcl handles authentication and authorization of Flow accounts, signing transactions, and querying data using using Cadence scripts.

2. Look Ma, a Web Server! | kitty-items/api

We love decentralization, but servers are still very useful, and this one's no exception. The code in this project demonstrates how to connect to Flow using Flow JavaScript SDK from a Node JS backend. It's also chalk-full of handy patterns you'll probably want to use for more complex and feature-rich blockchain applications, like storing and querying events using a SQL database (Postgres). The API demonstrates how to send transactions to the Flow Blockchain, specifically for minting Kibbles (fungible tokens) and Kitty Items (non-fungible tokens).

3. Cadence Code | kitty-items/cadence

Cadence smart contracts, scripts & transactions for your viewing pleasure. This folder contains all of the blockchain logic for the marketplace application. Here you will find examples of fungible token and non-fungible token (NFT) smart contract implementations, as well as the scripts and transactions that interact with them. It also contains examples of how to test your Cadence code (tests written in Golang).

😺 What are Kitty Items?

Items are hats for your cats, but under the hood they're non-fungible tokens (NFTs) stored on the Flow blockchain.

Items can be purchased from the marketplace with fungible tokens. In the future you'll be able to add them to Ethereum CryptoKitties with ownership validated by an oracle.

❓ More Questions?

• Chat with the team on the Flow Discord server
• Ask questions on the Flow community forum

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🚀 Happy Hacking!