diff --git a/applications/ink-playground-ide-improvements.md b/applications/ink-playground-ide-improvements.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..83ea35ba5f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/applications/ink-playground-ide-improvements.md @@ -0,0 +1,154 @@ +# Ink Playground IDE Improvements Grant + +- **Team Name:** [Zeeve](https://www.zeeve.io) +- **Payment Address:** Ethereum (USDT/USDC) 0x5E1257E928aa42E3D0cd9E2A7537E37D108D811B +- **[Level](https://github.com/w3f/Grants-Program/tree/master#level_slider-levels):** 2 + +## Overview +The adoption of any technology depends on the accessibility and ease of use to both the maintainer and user, blockchain +or distributed ledger technologies are inherently a lot difficult to understand and maintain, so we have to build tools +to make the process much easier and painless. In the case of Polkadot's substrate based smart contract development we have +Ink! playground which helps smart contract developers to prototype and test it before deploying on the parachain in a +Sandboxed environment with having to do time-consuming setup of dependencies and also with ability to set up a local +environment to do development. + +## Project Details + +The community posed few challenges and issues to improve the Ink! Playground to keep up with the Ink's advancements and +have Ink's own docs with ability to execute the examples with multi version support, the following issues were proposed +by the Grant team to resolve: + +- [Support supplying ink! version in URL · Issue #427 · paritytech/ink-playground](https://github.com/paritytech/ink-playground/issues/427) +- [Update playground automatically upon new ink! release · Issue #197 · paritytech/ink-playground · GitHub](https://github.com/paritytech/ink-playground/issues/197) +- [Implement versioning for ink! playground · Issue #460 · paritytech/ink-playground · GitHub](https://github.com/paritytech/ink-playground/issues/460) +- [Support running code from crate docs · Issue #428 · paritytech/ink-playground · GitHub](https://github.com/paritytech/ink-playground/issues/428) + +The brief overview of the issue resolution: + +- **Dependency Versioning**: Provide an API and UI components to set dependency versions for the contract, which will + help developers to build for targeted systems and environments. +- Automated **Ink! Version upgrade** in Ink! Playground system when new Ink! Version releases. +- Ability to select **Ink! version** to compile the code in the IDE. +- In Ink! **Crate docs** code examples can be executed using the Ink! Playground backend with Ink! version support. + +Additionally, we would like to propose further enhancements to the Ink! Playground which will benefit the Polkadot community +by easing the development process with better Developer Experience. We are excited to work on the following enhancements +once we complete the aforementioned improvements and build upon to provide maintenance of the Ink! Playground. + +- **Local file system storage:** Use the local file system for contract storage which will help developers + to open and save the file without leaving the IDE. +- **Template contracts:** Provide contract templates similar to the Ethereum contract standards based on + the popular use cases. +- **Ability to run contract functions** based on the metadata generated for a contract, this + will help developers to prototype, test and debug the contracts faster. +- **Deploy contracts from the IDE:** Deploy the contracts to the remote contract execution environment by + providing the remote endpoint. +- **Recent contracts:** List all the recent contracts that were saved for faster access to previously edited + contracts. + +## Team :busts_in_silhouette: + +### Team members +- Ghan Vashishtha +- Sankalp Sharma +- Jasti Sri Radhe Shyam + +### Contact +- **Contact Name:** Ghan Vashishtha +- **Contact EMail:** ghan@zeeve.io +- **Website:** www.zeeve.io + +### Legal Structure +- **Registered Address:** 1603 Capitol Ave Ste 310, Cheyenne 82001, WY +- **Registered Legal Entity:** Zeeve Inc. + +### Team's experience + +Founded by a team of experienced professionals and entrepreneurs from industry, Zeeve's co-founders +collectively have over 45+ years of experience in technology, product development, and various +business verticals. Zeeve has built an enterprise-grade no-code Blockchain Infrastructure Automation +platform that enables Enterprises, Blockchain Startups, Blockchain Consulting Companies and Web3 +Developers to deploy Blockchain nodes and Decentralized Apps within minutes, and manage them with +advanced analytics and real-time alerts. In June 2022, the Startup raised $2.65 Million in a Seed +Round from Leo Capital and Blu Ventures. It plans to deploy the funds towards product development, +augmenting the technology team and enhancing its reach among DApp developers and global corporations, +please consider visiting our prior [work](https://www.zeeve.io/platform). + +### Team Code Repos + +- https://github.com/Zeeve-App +- https://github.com/Zeeve-App/sawtooth-artifacts +- https://github.com/Zeeve-App/Zeeve-read-the-docs +- https://github.com/Zeeve-App/larch + +### Team LinkedIn Profiles (if available) + +- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ghan-vashishtha/ +- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sankalp-sharma-502008139/ +- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jastisriradheshyam/ + +## Development Status :open_book: + +Before applying for the Web3 Foundation Grant, the Zeeve team has built a DevOps automation for Polkadot and other substrate chains, also created substrates based relay chains: + +- Automated Polkadot deployments including validator nodes, archive nodes [here](https://www.zeeve.io/blockchain-protocols/deploy-polkadot-node/) +- Automated Kusama deployments including validator nodes, archive nodes [here](https://www.zeeve.io/blockchain-protocols/deploy-kusama-node/) +- Created a relay chain on substrate with some customizations done at the core to accommodate the tokenomics and custom reward mechanism [here](https://axscan.axiacoin.network/#/explorer) +- Published a [blog post](https://www.zeeve.io/blog/how-to-use-substrate-to-create-parachains-in-polkadot/) about the usage and implementation of parachain's +- The focus for Zeeve will be automating the parachain deployments, dedicated node setups and help with faster testing with zombie-net. +- Spoke with David Hawig, Richard Casey and Gautam Dhameja from the Parity team regarding the development of Zeeve and the Web3 Grant application +- Developed Larch, a UI for the Parity's Zombienet - [GitHub - Zeeve-App/larch](https://github.com/Zeeve-App/larch) + +## Development Road-map :nut_and_bolt: + +### Overview + +- **Total Estimated Duration:** 100 working days +- **Full-Time Equivalent (FTE):** 3 FTE +- **Total Costs:** 25,000 USD. + +### Milestone 1 — Implement Ink's Dependency versioning + +- **Estimated duration:** 90 working days +- **FTE:** 3 +- **Costs:** 22,000 USD + +| Number | Deliverable | Specification | +| -----: | -------------- | ------------- | +| 0.a. | License | Apache-2.0 | +| 0.b. | Documentation | We will provide both **inline documentation** of the code and a basic **tutorial** that explains how a user can open and save a file | +| 1. | On demand version specific compilation | We will add the ability to build the compiler environment if a compiler environment is not present with a specific version of Ink! | +| 2. | Dependency Version support | We will upgrade and maintain Ink! and `cargo-contract` dependencies versions up to date and have provision to have older version support | +| 3. | Ink! Upgrades | We will add the ability to add Playground's Ink! version support to latest version as soon as new version of Ink! is released without manual intervention | +| 4. | Select Ink! version from UI | We will add ability to select Ink!'s version from the IDE to compile | + +### Milestone 2 - Ink! crate docs code execution + +- **Estimated duration:** 10 working days +- **FTE:** 3 +- **Costs:** 3000 USD + +| Number | Deliverable | Specification | +| -----: | -------------- | ------------- | +| 0.a. | License | Apache-2.0 | +| 0.b. | Documentation | We will provide both **inline documentation** of the code and a basic **tutorial** that explains how a user can open and save a file | +| 1. | Ink! Create docs | We will provide the API and update create docs to run the code examples | + +## Technology Stack + +- Javascript +- CSS +- HTML +- Typescript +- Rust +- Docker + +## Additional Information :heavy_plus_sign: + +**How did you hear about the Grants Program?** Web3 Foundation Website / Parity team / a conversation with Richard Casey. + +### References: + +[1]: [What is Parity's ink!? | Parity Technologies](https://www.parity.io/blog/what-is-paritys-ink) + +[2]: [ink/ARCHITECTURE.md at master · paritytech/ink · GitHub](https://github.com/paritytech/ink/blob/master/ARCHITECTURE.md)