- Overview
- Tutorials
- Getting started
- Get started with Canton and the JSON Ledger API
- Get Started with Canton, the JSON Ledger API, and TypeScript
- Get started with Canton Network App Dev Quickstart
- Get started with smart contract development
- Basic contracts
- Test templates using Daml scripts
- Build the Daml Archive (.dar) file
- Data types
- Transform contracts using choices
- Add constraints to a contract
- Parties and authority
- Compose choices
- Handle exceptions
- Work with dependencies
- Functional programming 101
- The Daml standard library
- Test Daml contracts
- Next steps
- Application development
- Getting started
- Development how-tos
- Component how-tos
- Explanations
- References
- Application development
- Smart contract development
- Daml language cheat sheet
- Daml language reference
- Daml standard library
- DA.Action.State.Class
- DA.Action.State
- DA.Action
- DA.Assert
- DA.Bifunctor
- DA.Crypto.Text
- DA.Date
- DA.Either
- DA.Exception
- DA.Fail
- DA.Foldable
- DA.Functor
- DA.Internal.Interface.AnyView.Types
- DA.Internal.Interface.AnyView
- DA.List.BuiltinOrder
- DA.List.Total
- DA.List
- DA.Logic
- DA.Map
- DA.Math
- DA.Monoid
- DA.NonEmpty.Types
- DA.NonEmpty
- DA.Numeric
- DA.Optional
- DA.Record
- DA.Semigroup
- DA.Set
- DA.Stack
- DA.Text
- DA.TextMap
- DA.Time
- DA.Traversable
- DA.Tuple
- DA.Validation
- GHC.Show.Text
- GHC.Tuple.Check
- Prelude
- Smart contract upgrading reference
- Glossary of concepts
Project overview¶
When approaching the Canton Network Quickstart it is important to keep in mind that Quickstart is not a “framework” or “platform”. Rather, it is a snapshot of an early-stage Canton Network project that has spent several sprints creating developer, test, and deployment infrastructure and is just beginning to transition to feature delivery.
Developer infrastructure and project logistics are more transferable between projects than specific feature delivery. The goal of Canton Network Quickstart is to act as a “bootstrap scaffold”, to provide the benefits of early investment in such project infrastructure to every Canton Network Application development team on the network.
As a guide to Quickstart, the treatment of supporting topics is necessarily shallow. In addition to the online documentation [1], Digital Asset provides a number of free courses [2] covering the Daml Language, the Canton Ledger, and architectural considerations. In particular the Technical Solution Architect path [3] provides a lot of useful background to this guide.