Getting Started

To get started, first check that you have Sugar installed on your system:

sugar --version

The command above should print the Sugar version – e.g., sugar-cli 2.5.0.

By default, Sugar uses the keypair and RPC settings from solana-cli. You can check your current settings by running:

solana config get

And you can set different settings by running:

solana config set --url <rpc url> --keypair <path to keypair file>

Preparing Your Files

Create a folder for your project and within it, create a folder named assets to store your json metadata and image file pairs with the naming convention 0.json, 0.png, 1.json, 1.png, and so on. The metadata extension is .json and the image files can be .png, .gif, .jpg and .jpeg. Additionally, you will need collection.json and collection.png files containing the information for your collection NFT.

Your project directory will then look like:

Running Sugar

Within your project directory, use the launch command to start an interactive process of creating your config file and deploying a Candy Machine to Solana:

sugar launch

At the end of the execution of the launch command, a Candy Machine will be deployed onchain. You can use the mint command to mint an NFT:

sugar mint

When all NFTs have been minted, you can close your Candy Machine and reclaim the account rent:

sugar withdraw