Avalanche Starter Kit

Environment Setup

The Avalanche Starter Kit provides a pre-configured GitHub Codespace environment with everything you need to develop cross-chain applications on Avalanche. This environment comes with:

  • Foundry for smart contract development
  • Docker support for running the ICM relayer
  • Required VS Code extensions
  • All necessary development tools

What You Will Learn

In this section, you will:

  • Launch your own GitHub Codespace
  • Set up your Core wallet and get test tokens
  • Configure your development environment
  • Learn basic Foundry commands for contract interaction

By the end of this section, you'll have a fully configured environment ready for cross-chain development with Interchain Messaging

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