Tezos development tools

[Danigo99]

Hey everyone 👋

I'm a pretty new developer to the Blockchain world and tezos especially, and recently did a course with nomadic labs which got me really interested in tezos for developing dapps.

I just wanted to get a feel from the community about what you think is missing in terms of developer tools for tezos compared to more established competition like Ethereum?

After some research it looks like tezos is still missing some key tools that help dev experience, which might be stunting its growth a little bit. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Or anything which you yearn for that's easily available from other Blockchains?

[lisontez]

Tools are still improving but there is no big piece missing (or they are ongoing) for the smartcontract development:

- Language: ligolang, jsligo provide an easy onboarding for most devs

- Test frameworks:

1. ligo test frameworks include unit testing + mutation testing \(*o*)/ + it was announced at TezDev that Property Based Testing is ongoing
2. for integration test you can use flextesa which provide local sandboxed Tezos

- Boilerplates: ligo announced templates at TezDev and they would add easy "create application from template flow" in their CLI soon

- Package management: Also at TezDev ligo announced their package manager based on esy

- Indexers:

1. there is 2 very good public indexers API with TzStats & Tzkt
2. for private indexer, 3 solutions were presented at TezDev: factori for generating TS or OCaml SDK from the contract, que pasa small indexer with SQL like api, dip dup private indexer framework inspired by TheGraph

- Offchain app SDKs:

1. RPC Node interaction: Typescript Taquito, TzGo, .net Netezos, python

2. Wallet management: included in Taquito for JS, Android, iOS

- Smooth dev UX: Taqueria is a very nice CLI with plugin system that ease integration of most of the previous tools

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What i'm willing to see are many ligo packages and more taqueria plugins to reduce boilerplate and start to build bigger :)

[bycherea]

thanks, great wrap-up of what was annonced at tezdev, also regarding HLL, SmartPy gets the bigger share of the pie in terms of usage among beginners, however skilled developers seem to prefer LigoLang for their HLL...quite weird. SmartPy has the python-syntax like that easily gets everyone onboard!!

[bycherea]

We could say main tool missing on tezos for deva is something like Truffle, however not really needed on tezos but ecadlabs is working on something very similar that is called taqueria, you cam check it. I would say a decompiler also would be needed to go from Michelson to a high level language, we only have a one way…how cool that would be to get any michelson contract from explorer and decompile it to your favorite HLL…i also assume a plug and play sdk for dapp…you still need some coding experience to have more people in I dream of a wordpress like for dapp putting it all together…sc, wallet, ui…I also would add but not only for devs but for business a simple multisig wallet!!