Engineering Weekly Update - WE 2022-06-04 & 06-11

[josh]

Brief Summary

• Created a JavaScript SDK workshop w/ quick start repo!
• Code preparation steps for executing a smart contract function call now charged before the work is complete.
• v0.14.0 of nearcore crates released which resolved node server responses becoming underserializable from the client.
• Initial ABI tooling repos created.

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Results

• Protocol:

  • Improvements made to mock-node benchmarking tool.
  • Added compile-time checks that confirm asyncronous block processing. PR #6962, #6945, #6946
  • Added integer overflow test coverage for gas counter.

• Node:

  • Storage config is now consolidate to one location.
  • Garbage collection after sync test fixed.
  • SSL enabled in telemetry clients to allow clients the ability to send information to explorer.
  • Added build_chain test documentation & insta snaspshots which will allow for easier updates to hashes as they change.
  • --verbose flag now allows for arguments to be optional instead of required. This pattern is standard most linux utilities and will be less confusing for developers.

• Developer Tools:

  • near-sdk-js

    • Changed arguments being passed as an array to being passed as named parameters
    • Consolidated all examples into one main project
    • Improved near-sdk build command to allow for multiple contracts in a single project.
    • Improved documentation / variable naming to clearly explain Bytes return type.

  • ABI

    • ABI tooling proof of concept repos created
      • near-sdk-abi
      • near-abi-client-rs
      • near-abi-client-js
      • cargo-near
      • abi-connected-example

  • nearcore

    • parser and errors module separated into more specialized modules as part of a larger initiative to decouple jsonrpc-primitives from near-primitives

  • near-worspaces-rs

    • Increased timeout for RPC CI testing from 3sec to 10sec

• Data Platform:

  • New working prototype created for the new Indexer based on AWS AuroraDB with write performance 3-4x that of current Postgres solution.
  • New working draft of the Alert Indexer created.

• Developer Console:

  • Entire codebase convered to Stiches and Radix.
  • Wabmi Analytics integrated.
  • Fixed VError import error
  • Implemented .env file option for local overide
  • Switched to Luxon over Moment as a more modern date library

• Infra:

  • Deployed RC v1.26.1 to mainnet
  • Upgraded rust version on buildkite agents to 1.61.0 which unblocks build jobs for near-sdk.

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Call for Action

• Add your opinion on the proposal to reduce the gas floor price
• Test out near-sdk-js and leave us some feedback here.

Join one or more of our Monthly Community Meetings!

Team / Topic	When?
Developer Console / Explorer	First Thursday
Protocol / NEPs	Second Thursday
Developer Tooling	Third Thursday
Data Platform	Last Thursday

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Full Reports

• Node WE 06.04.22
• Protocol WE 06.04.22
• Protocol WE 06.11.22
• Developer Tools WE 06.04.22
• Developer Tools WE 06.11.22
• Developer Console WE 06.04.22
• Data Platform WE 06.04.22
• Data Platform WE 06.11.22
• Infra WE 06.04.22

[KriptoRaptor]

@josh

Created a JavaScript SDK workshop w/ quick start repo!

congratz team, this is huge!

[josh]

thanks so much! stoked to get this rolled out for the community