Install Evolution-SDK

Evolution-SDK is a powerful, modular framework for building Cardano applications off-chain. It provides developers with type-safe interfaces and utilities to interact with the Cardano blockchain, create transactions, and manage wallets without dealing with low-level complexities.

Prerequisites

Before installing Evolution-SDK, ensure your environment meets the prerequisites:

Node.js: Version 18 or higher
Package Manager: pnpm, npm, yarn or bun

Installation

Choose your preferred package manager to install Evolution-SDK:

pnpm

pnpm, or Performant Node Package Manager, is one of the main JavaScript package managers. It focuses on being a disk space-efficient alternative to npm. To install Evolution-SDK, run:


pnpm i @evolution-sdk/lucid

npm

npm is a package manager for the JavaScript programming language. It is the default package manager for the JavaScript runtime environment Node.js. To install Evolution-SDK, run:

bash @evolution-sdklution/lucid

yarn

Yarn is one of the main JavaScript package managers. It is an alternative to the npm package manager aiming to solve consistency, security, and performance problems with large codebases. To install Evolution-SDK, run:

bash yarn add @evolution-sdk/lucid

bun

Bun is a JavaScript runtime, package manager, test runner and bundler. It uses WebKit’s JavaScriptCore as the JavaScript engine, unlike Node.js and Deno, which both use V8. To install Evolution-SDK, run:


bun i @evolution-sdk/lucid

Package Structure

Evolution SDK uses a modular architecture to allow importing only what you need:

- - evolution-sdk/lucid ⇀ Main package for Evolution SDK
  - evolution-sdk/bip39 ⇀ Package for BIP-39 mnemonic code
  - evolution-sdk/core-types ⇀ Core types used across Evolution SDK packages
  - evolution-sdk/core-utils ⇀ Core utilities used across Evolution SDK packages
  - evolution-sdk/crc8 ⇀ Package for CRC8 calculation
  - evolution-sdk/plutus ⇀ Package for Plutus integration
  - evolution-sdk/provider ⇀ Package for providing data
  - evolution-sdk/sign_data ⇀ Package for signing data
  - evolution-sdk/utils ⇀ Utility functions for Evolution SDK
  - evolution-sdk/wallet ⇀ Wallet package for Evolution SDK

Installing the lucid package will automatically export all other packages in the library.

Next Steps

📕Documentation 🔍Under the hood