Solana Smart Contract Tutorial: Using the Anchor Framework

Anchor is a framework created by project serum to help abstract away the complexities of creating Solana Smart Contracts.

In past video's we've seen how complex it was to get data and parse it, in today's video we will see how Anchor solves this so we can focus on writing smart contracts instead of byte packing.

? Solana Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AAtfPHEMbA&list=PL53JxaGwWUqCr3xm4qvqbgpJ4Xbs4lCs7
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00:00 - Intro
01:37 - Setting up Anchor
02:32 - Helpful Anchor CLI commands
03:39 - Anchor breakdown: program module
05:28 - Anchor breakdown: defining accounts
13:45 - Defining our anchor script
14:35 - Cloning the project and opening it on VS Code
17:00 - Implementing the anchor script
22:27 - Deploying our anchor script
25:45 - Using anchor to create an IDL file and write frontend code (tests)
30:25 - Testing high level instructions
31:24 - Implement frontend tests
42:30 - TL;DW: Comparing Solana scripts with Anchor scripts

Resources:
Anchor Installation Instruction:
https://project-serum.github.io/anchor/getting-started/installation.html

Anchor Github Project:
https://github.com/project-serum/anchor

Anchor CLI commands:
https://project-serum.github.io/anchor/cli/commands.html

Code documentation:
https://docs.rs/anchor-lang/latest/anchor_lang/context/struct.Context.html
https://docs.rs/anchor-lang/latest/anchor_lang/accounts/account/struct.Account.html