A friendly neighborhood blockchain developer device setup
Before we start our journey we will need some tools installed to help us along the way.
The non-Blockchain Tools needed for this series
We will need some sort of code/text editor for this series. I personally like using Sublime Text as my text editor.
Sublime Text
https://www.sublimetext.com/
Since we will be doing some programming we will need a programming language and its assorted toolsets.
JavaScript
We will be using NodeJS to run our website code. I found that installing the earlier 14.x version provides the best results for my laptop.
NodeJS v14.x
https://nodejs.org/en/download/
The Art Part.
I will cover this a bit more in the Art posts, but here is the link to Inkscape to download.
Inkscape
https://inkscape.org/
The sites we will be using
Since we will be offloading most of the backend blockchain and IPFS work to NFTport we should probably get an API key before starting.
NFTport.xyz
https://www.nftport.xyz/sign-up
In order to host your site you will first need a repository site like GitHub or GitLab to store it. I will be using GitLab.
GitLab
https://gitlab.com/users/sign_up
GitHub
https://github.com/
Note: I've already setup my GitLab account, so that made it a bit easier for my setup, you may want to setup a GitHub as that will make it easier to fork codeSTACKr's minter-dapp
We will be hosting the frontend of the project on Netlify as they make it so easy to get a Node project off the ground.
Netlify
https://www.netlify.com/
Our project will eventually end up in the OpenSea market place, so you may as well get comfortable with that
OpenSea.io
https://testnets.opensea.io/
Note: You will need a MetaMask wallet setup and working in order to sign in/sign up.
MetaMask
https://metamask.io/
You will need some test ETH in order to proceed, though only to mint the NFTs and send or sell them. This is for testing only and I've provides 2 links to acquire the Rinkeby ETH. (I guess that testnet will eventually be going away. YMMV)
https://faucets.chain.link/rinkeby
https://rinkebyfaucet.com/
OK, we have our tools to build.
Let's Go!
