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NEAR Protocol Developer Guide

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NEAR is dedicated to providing the best developer experience possible for building an open web. This mission is next to impossible to achieve without feedback and contributions from people like you. 🫵

Get involved! 👉 please select one of the options above or contribute to one of the essential developer repositories listed below 🙏


📝 Docs

Website Description Repo
docs.near.org NEAR Developer Documentation near/docs
nomicon.io NEAR Protocol Specification Documentation near/neps
near-nodes.io NEAR Node Documentation (Validator, RPC, Archival) near/node-docs

⛓️ Protocol

Name Description Repo Latest Release
nearcore Reference implementation of NEAR Protocol near/nearcore Latest Release
NEPs NEAR Protocol Specifications and Standards near/neps

🔗 Chain Abstraction

Abstract away the complexities of blockchain networks, enabling seamless interaction and transactions for users across multiple chains within a single interface

Name Description Repo
data-availability Using NEAR as storage data availability with a focus on lowering rollup DA fees. near/rollup-data-availability
cross-chain signatures Control accounts in multiple chains using your NEAR account near-examples/near-multichain

🚀 Decentralized Frontend Stack

Create decentralized frontend components by storing its source code on the blockchain 🤯.

Name Description Repo Latest Release
👉 GATEWAY
near-discovery dev.near.org Gateway near/near-discovery Latest Release
near.social near.social Gateway NearSocial/viewer
near-discovery-components Core components / primitives for dev.near.org near/near-discovery-components
chain-hosted-ui Decentralized hosting of any Vite supported UI framework directly on-chain near/chain-hosted-ui
👉 EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT
VM B.O.S. Virtual Machine nearsocial/VM Latest Release
BWE B.O.S. Web Engine (WIP replacement for VM) near/bos-web-engine
👉 DATABASE
B.O.S. Database Smart contract hosting frontend source code & user data nearsocial/social-db

🛠️ Dev Tools

Name Description Repo Latest Release
create-near-app Easy fullstack dApp deployment tool near/create-near-app Latest Release
BOS VSCode Ext. VSCode extension for building B.O.S. components near/near-vscode Latest Release
BOS Loader Simplifying multiple component local development near/bos-loader Latest Release
Além A web3 JavaScript / TypeScript library to create web3 apps for Near BOS. wpdas/alem Latest Release
bos-workspace A comprehensive toolset for component and gateway development nearbuilders/bos-workspace Latest Release

💻 CLI

Name Description Repo Latest Release
near-cli JS based CLI for interacting w/ NEAR near/near-cli Latest Release
near-cli-rs Rust based CLI for interacting w/ NEAR near/near-cli-rs Latest Release
BOS CLI CLI for simplifying local development on BOS bos-cli-rs/bos-cli-rs Latest Release

🔑 Wallet / Auth

Name Description Repo Latest Release
wallet-selector Wallet integration tool for NEAR near/wallet-selector Latest Release
web3-onboard Wallet integration tool for multichain blocknative/web3-onboard Latest Release
FastAuth Signer Authenticate and sign transactions w/ FastAuth near/fast-auth-signer
mpc-recovery Create and restore accounts w/ OIDC protocol near/mpc-recovery
FastAuth SDK Allows users to recover or sign-up for a NEAR account using their email address chain-abstraction/fastauth-sdk
iDOS Decentralized identity, storage, and verification idos-network/idos-sdk-js

🔌 API

Name Description Repo Latest Release
near-jsonrpc-client-rs API for RS projects near-jsonrpc-client-rs
near-api-js API tool for frontend & backend JS libraries near/near-api-js Latest Release
fastnear A low-latency API for wallets and explorers fastnear/fastnear-api-server-rs
QueryApi Build custom indexers and query with GraphQL endpoints near/queryapi

📝 Smart Contracts

Name Description Repo Latest Release
near-sdk-js Create smart contracts w/ JavaScript near/near-sdk-js Latest Release
near-sdk-rs Create smart contracts w/ Rust near/near-sdk-rs Latest Release
Keypom Customizable key creation for NFT/FT drops keypom/keypom Latest Release

🧪 Testing

Name Description Repo Latest Release
workspaces-js Testing sandbox written in JS near/workspaces-js Latest Release
workspaces-rs Testing sandbox written in Rust near/workspaces-rs Latest Release

🔎 Blockchain Data Indexing

Name Description Repo Latest Release
QueryApi Build custom indexers and query with GraphQL endpoints near/queryapi
fastnear A low-latency API for wallets and explorers fastnear/fastnear-api-server-rs
near-lake-indexer Built on NEAR Indexer that stores JSON in AWS S3 bucket near/near-lake-indexer Latest Release
near-lake-framework-rs Stream blocks from NEAR Lake into your server near/near-lake-framework-rs Latest Release
near-lake-framework-js Stream blocks from NEAR Lake into your server near/near-lake-framework-js

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  1. nearcore nearcore Public

    Reference client for NEAR Protocol

    Rust 2.4k 690

  2. NEPs NEPs Public

    The Near Enhancement Proposals repository

    JavaScript 225 148

  3. core-contracts core-contracts Public

    Core contracts: reference staking pool, lockup, voting, whitelist, multisig.

    Rust 331 134

  4. near-api-js near-api-js Public

    JavaScript library to interact with NEAR Protocol via RPC API

    TypeScript 409 251

  5. create-near-app create-near-app Public

    Create a starter app hooked up to the NEAR blockchain

    JavaScript 362 160

  6. near-cli-rs near-cli-rs Public

    near CLI is your human-friendly companion that helps to interact with NEAR Protocol from command line.

    Rust 119 65

Repositories

Showing 10 of 254 repositories
  • nearcore Public

    Reference client for NEAR Protocol

    near/nearcore’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 2,425 GPL-3.0 690 1,067 77 Updated Mar 22, 2025
  • near-sdk-rs Public

    Rust library for writing NEAR smart contracts

    near/near-sdk-rs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 482 Apache-2.0 261 118 (9 issues need help) 12 Updated Mar 22, 2025
  • near-cli-rs Public

    near CLI is your human-friendly companion that helps to interact with NEAR Protocol from command line.

    near/near-cli-rs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 119 Apache-2.0 65 16 (4 issues need help) 4 Updated Mar 21, 2025
  • near-api-rs Public
    near/near-api-rs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 16 Apache-2.0 4 7 1 Updated Mar 21, 2025
  • NEPs Public

    The Near Enhancement Proposals repository

    near/NEPs’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 225 148 90 15 Updated Mar 21, 2025
  • abi Public

    NEAR contract schema and tooling

    near/abi’s past year of commit activity
    18 5 3 1 Updated Mar 21, 2025
  • near-public-lakehouse Public

    NEAR Public Lakehouse

    near/near-public-lakehouse’s past year of commit activity
    Python 4 GPL-3.0 1 6 0 Updated Mar 21, 2025
  • intents Public

    Set of contracts for the NEAR Intents project

    near/intents’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 10 MIT 6 0 1 Updated Mar 21, 2025
  • near-sdk-abi Public

    ABI utilities used for generating Rust SDK cross-contract calls

    near/near-sdk-abi’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 9 Apache-2.0 0 2 0 Updated Mar 20, 2025
  • wallet-selector Public

    This is a wallet selector modal that allows users to interact with NEAR dApps with a selection of available wallets.

    near/wallet-selector’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 167 Apache-2.0 170 28 2 Updated Mar 20, 2025