Project Deployment

While Motoko Playground is very convenient for trying out small snippets of Motoko code, developing canisters requires a development environment with more features.

In this chapter we will look at:

• Installing the SDK
• Compile Motoko code into WASM modules
• Configure and deploy canisters locally
• Managing identities
• Setup a cycles wallet
• Deploy to mainnet

dfx commands

In this chapter we only cover the most essential commands in dfx. For a full overview of dfx commands, see the official docs.

Remember that all dfx commands and subcommands allow us to add the --help flag to print out useful information about the use of the command.