Developer Tools

On top of onchain programs, Metaplex offers a variety of developer tools that can be used to create and maintain your own Solana programs.

• Umi: A JavaScript framework to build Solana clients.
• Kinobi: A superset of the IDL spec that allows us to generate program clients.
• Shank: A set of macros that help vanilla Solana program generate IDLs.
• Amman: A library that helps set up local validators for development.
• Solana Project Template: A GitHub template for vanilla Solana programs and their clients.
• Action: A set of useful GitHub Actions for Solana devs.
• Rust Bin: A library that syncs a local Rust binary with a crate's dependencies.
• Cusper: A library that identifies JavaScript errors from Solana logs.
• Beet: A set of borsh serializers for common Solana types.
• Solita: A JavaScript client generator for Solana programs (Kinobi's predecessor).