icp-azle-201: A JavaScript repository from fxgst

Things to be explained in the course:

What is Ledger? More details here: https://internetcomputer.org/docs/current/developer-docs/integrations/ledger/
What is Internet Identity? More details here: https://internetcomputer.org/internet-identity
What is Principal, Identity, Address? https://internetcomputer.org/internet-identity | https://yumimarketplace.medium.com/whats-the-difference-between-principal-id-and-account-id-3c908afdc1f9
Canister-to-canister communication and how multi-canister development is done? https://medium.com/icp-league/explore-backend-multi-canister-development-on-ic-680064b06320

How to deploy canisters implemented in the course

Ledger canister

./deploy-local-ledger.sh - deploys a local Ledger canister. IC works differently when run locally so there is no default network token available and you have to deploy it yourself. Remember that it's not a token like ERC-20 in Ethereum, it's a native token for ICP, just deployed separately. This canister is described in the dfx.json:

	"ledger_canister": {
  	"type": "custom",
  	"candid": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dfinity/ic/928caf66c35627efe407006230beee60ad38f090/rs/rosetta-api/icp_ledger/ledger.did",
  	"wasm": "https://download.dfinity.systems/ic/928caf66c35627efe407006230beee60ad38f090/canisters/ledger-canister.wasm.gz",
  	"remote": {
    	"id": {
      	"ic": "ryjl3-tyaaa-aaaaa-aaaba-cai"
    	}
  	}
	}

remote.id.ic - that is the principal of the Ledger canister and it will be available by this principal when you work with the ledger.

Also, in the scope of this script, a minter identity is created which can be used for minting tokens for the testing purposes. Additionally, the default identity is pre-populated with 1000_000_000_000 e8s which is equal to 10_000 * 108 ICP. The decimals value for ICP is 108.

List identities: dfx identity list

Switch to the minter identity: dfx identity use minter

Transfer ICP: dfx ledger transfer <ADDRESS> --memo 0 --icp 100 --fee 0 where:

--memo is some correlation id that can be set to identify some particular transactions (we use that in the marketplace canister).
--icp is the transfer amount
--fee is the transaction fee. In this case it's 0 because we make this transfer as the minter idenity thus this transaction is of type MINT, not TRANSFER.
<ADDRESS> is the address of the recipient. To get the address from the principal, you can use the helper function from the marketplace canister - getAddressFromPrincipal(principal: Principal), it can be called via the Candid UI.

Internet identity canister

dfx deploy internet_identity - that is the canister that handles the authentication flow. Once it's deployed, the js-agent library will be talking to it to register identities. There is UI that acts as a wallet where you can select existing identities or create a new one.

Marketplace canister

dfx deploy dfinity_js_backend - deploys the marketplace canister where the business logic is implemented. Basically, it implements functions like add, view, update, delete, and buy products + a set of helper functions.

Do not forget to run dfx generate dfinity_js_backend anytime you add/remove functions in the canister or when you change the signatures. Otherwise, these changes won't be reflected in IDL's and won't work when called using the JS agent.

Marketplace frontend canister