clemedon / motoko_playground_cli

Mini motoko playground to test functions from the CLI.

MOTOKO PLAYGROUND CLI

Minimalistic and lightweight playground to quickly test Motoko programs and canisters without the need for a mouse.

Requires dfx

Programs

How

cd program make

Example:

    make

The workflow is create a directory with a copy of the Makefile and your .mo files, write code and say make to compile it and run.

As it is not a canister do not use actor, public, query, async...

Canisters

How

1. Terminal 1 cd canister
2. Terminal 1 dfx start
   
3. Terminal 2 make install
   
4. Terminal 2 make run-<canister_name>

Example:

    make run-hello
    make run-ciao

The workflow is to create <canister_name>/main.mo in the src/ directory, write the canister make of functions and a function called main() in which we will call the other functions with various test input. Run make-<canister_name> to execute it and print those tests outputs in the terminal.

A MAIN FUNCTION IS REQUIRED FOR MAKE RUN TO WORK

Troubleshooting

• First of all make sure that in src/ there is a directory with the name of your canister which contains at least one file named main.mo which contains at least one function named main() which does not take any arguments.

• If Terminal says "...cannot create regular file '.tmp/'..." run mkdir .tmp

• If Terminal 2 says "...the canister is not empty..." run make run

• If Terminal 2 says that "Canister...is out of cycles". Press Ctrl-C in Terminal 1 and run dfx start --clean in Terminal 1.

• If Terminal 2 says "...cannot create regular file '.tmp/'..." run mkdir .tmp

Contact

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