Flow Dev Wallet
The Flow Dev Wallet is a mock Flow wallet that simulates the protocols used by FCL to interact with the Flow blockchain on behalf of simulated user accounts.
This project implements an FCL compatible interface, but should not be used as a reference for building a production grade wallet.
This project should only be used in aid of local development against a locally run instance of the Flow blockchain like the Flow emulator, and should never be used in conjunction with Flow Mainnet, Testnet, or any other instances of Flow.
To see a full list of Flow compatible wallets visit Wallets page
Getting Started
Before using the dev wallet, you'll need to start the Flow emulator.
Install the flow-cli
The Flow emulator is bundled with the Flow CLI. Instructions for installing the CLI can be found here: flow-cli/install/
Create a flow.json
file
Run this command to create flow.json
file (typically in your project's root directory):
Start the Emulator
Start the Emulator and deploy the contracts by running the following command from the directory containing flow.json
in your project:
Configuring Your JavaScript Application
The Flow Dev Wallet is designed to be used with @onflow/fcl
version 1.0.0
or higher. The FCL package can be installed with: npm install @onflow/fcl
or yarn add @onflow/fcl
.
To use the dev wallet, configure FCL to point to the address of a locally running Flow emulator and the dev wallet endpoint.
For a full example refer to Authenticate using FCL snippet
Test harness
It's easy to use this FCL harness app as a barebones app to interact with the dev-wallet during development:
Navigate to http://localhost:8701/harness
Wallet Discovery
Wallet Discovery offers a convenient modal and mechanism to authenticate users and connects to all wallets available in the Flow ecosystem.
The following code from Emerald Academy can be added to your React app to enable Wallet Discovery:
Account/Address creation
You can create a new account by using the AuthAccount
constructor. When you do this, make sure to specify which account will pay for the creation fees by setting it as the payer.
The account you choose to pay these fees must have enough money to cover the cost. If it doesn't, the process will stop and the account won't be created.
To create a new Flow account refer to these resources
Get Flow Balance
Retrieving the token balance of a specific account involves writing a script to pull data from onchain. The user may have both locked tokens as well as unlocked so to retrieve the total balance we would aggregate them together.
Contributing
Releasing a new version of Dev Wallet is as simple as tagging and creating a release, a Github Action will then build a bundle of the Dev Wallet that can be used in other tools (such as CLI). If the update of the Dev Wallet is required in the CLI, a seperate update PR on the CLI should be created. For more information, please visit the fcl-dev-wallet GitHub repository.
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