Hey conscientious coders. So you’ve decided to Build a Basic NFT. Make sure you’ve been Getting Started with Smart Contract Development first, if you’ve landed here unprepared. If you’re still quite new, this is a deep dive tutorial, and it’s broad. But it is fun!!

• you’ll build a very valuable NFT smart contract, which you can use as the backbone for many of your future NFT projects.
• use a wide range of developer tools, including Hardhat to interact with the contract
• view your NFT on a public market place

What you’ll learn

• deepen your knowledge of the tech stack of web3
• learn how to develop using a console
• use dependencies with package managers
• enhance your Solidity knowledge from previous lessons
• write scripts in JavaScript to deploy your contract
• configure your code to deploy on a live Ethereum testnet

Please note: We have lots of mini-quizzes and additional learning content built into the lesson. They are not there to slow you down, but to compound your new knowledge, helping you become a grounded developer. Please use them before rushing to the forum. There is a lot to unpack, so take your time, enjoy it – it will make you proud at the end of the day.

Please utilise your wisdom by helping answer the questions of others on the forum here. Just make sure to keep it within the context of the actual tutorial i.e. meaningful for the other. Then you build yourself a reputation here on DeveloperDao.Peeranha.io as a conscientious steward of education!

• Next steps we’d advise are to continue down this ERC721 track, and build TierNFTs on what you have just created. A follow up tutorial with writing tests in JavaScript for these contracts, and finish up by creating a front end to showcase your new skills to the world

• when you are done, follow our ERC20 track building with Foundry this time

• or go via Python for a Developer’s Guide to Ethereum, to really learn about the architecture we’re building upon!

Happy building a better world!