In this guide, we will show you how to setup the Story smart contract development environment in just a few minutes.

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Prerequisites

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Creating a Project

  1. Run foundryup to automatically install the latest stable version of the precompiled binaries: forge, cast, anvil, and chisel
  2. Run the following command in a new directory: forge init. This will create a foundry.toml and example project files in the project root. By default, forge init will also initialize a new git repository.
  3. Initialize a new yarn project: yarn init. Alternatively, you can use npm init or pnpm init.
  4. Open up your root-level foundry.toml file (located in the top directory of your project) and replace it with this:
[profile.default]
out = 'out'
libs = ['node_modules', 'lib']
cache_path  = 'forge-cache'
gas_reports = ["*"]
optimizer = true
optimizer_runs = 20000
test = 'test'
solc = '0.8.26'
fs_permissions = [{ access = 'read', path = './out' }, { access = 'read-write', path = './deploy-out' }]
evm_version = 'cancun'
remappings = [
    '@openzeppelin/=node_modules/@openzeppelin/',
    '@storyprotocol/core/=node_modules/@story-protocol/protocol-core/contracts/',
    '@storyprotocol/periphery/=node_modules/@story-protocol/protocol-periphery/contracts/',
    'erc6551/=node_modules/erc6551/',
    'forge-std/=node_modules/forge-std/src/',
    'ds-test/=node_modules/ds-test/src/',
    '@storyprotocol/test/=node_modules/@story-protocol/protocol-core/test/foundry/',
    '@solady/=node_modules/solady/'
]
  1. Remove the example contract files: rm src/Counter.sol script/Counter.s.sol test/Counter.t.sol

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Installing Dependencies

Now, we are ready to start installing our dependencies. To incorporate the Story Protocol core and periphery modules, run the following to have them added to your package.json. We will also install openzeppelin and erc6551 as a dependency for the contract and test.

# note: you can run them one-by-one, or all at once
yarn add @story-protocol/protocol-core@https://github.com/storyprotocol/protocol-core-v1
yarn add @story-protocol/protocol-periphery@https://github.com/storyprotocol/protocol-periphery-v1
yarn add @openzeppelin/contracts
yarn add @openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeable
yarn add erc6551
yarn add solady

Additionally, for working with Foundry’s test kit, we also recommend adding the following devDependencies:

yarn add -D https://github.com/dapphub/ds-test
yarn add -D github:foundry-rs/forge-std#v1.7.6

Now we are ready to build a simple test registration contract!