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NEAR Protocol Developer Guide

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NEAR is dedicated to providing the best developer experience possible for building an open web. This mission is next to impossible to achieve without feedback and contributions from people like you. 🫵

Get involved! 👉 please select one of the options above or contribute to one of the essential developer repositories listed below 🙏


📝 Docs

Website Description Repo
docs.near.org NEAR Developer Documentation near/docs
nomicon.io NEAR Protocol Specification Documentation near/neps
near-nodes.io NEAR Node Documentation (Validator, RPC, Archival) near/node-docs

⛓️ Protocol

Name Description Repo Latest Release
nearcore Reference implementation of NEAR Protocol near/nearcore Latest Release
NEPs NEAR Protocol Specifications and Standards near/neps

🔗 Chain Abstraction

Abstract away the complexities of blockchain networks, enabling seamless interaction and transactions for users across multiple chains within a single interface

Name Description Repo
data-availability Using NEAR as storage data availability with a focus on lowering rollup DA fees. near/rollup-data-availability
cross-chain signatures Control accounts in multiple chains using your NEAR account near-examples/near-multichain

🚀 Decentralized Frontend Stack

Create decentralized frontend components by storing its source code on the blockchain 🤯.

Name Description Repo Latest Release
👉 GATEWAY
near-discovery dev.near.org Gateway near/near-discovery Latest Release
near.social near.social Gateway NearSocial/viewer
near-discovery-components Core components / primitives for dev.near.org near/near-discovery-components
chain-hosted-ui Decentralized hosting of any Vite supported UI framework directly on-chain near/chain-hosted-ui
👉 EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT
VM B.O.S. Virtual Machine nearsocial/VM Latest Release
BWE B.O.S. Web Engine (WIP replacement for VM) near/bos-web-engine
👉 DATABASE
B.O.S. Database Smart contract hosting frontend source code & user data nearsocial/social-db

🛠️ Dev Tools

Name Description Repo Latest Release
create-near-app Easy fullstack dApp deployment tool near/create-near-app Latest Release
BOS VSCode Ext. VSCode extension for building B.O.S. components near/near-vscode Latest Release
BOS Loader Simplifying multiple component local development near/bos-loader Latest Release
Além A web3 JavaScript / TypeScript library to create web3 apps for Near BOS. wpdas/alem Latest Release
bos-workspace A comprehensive toolset for component and gateway development nearbuilders/bos-workspace Latest Release

💻 CLI

Name Description Repo Latest Release
near-cli-rs Rust based CLI for interacting w/ NEAR near/near-cli-rs Latest Release
near-cli JS based CLI for interacting w/ NEAR (deprecated) near/near-cli Latest Release
BOS CLI CLI for simplifying local development on BOS bos-cli-rs/bos-cli-rs Latest Release

🔑 Wallet / Auth

Name Description Repo Latest Release
hot-connector Wallet integration tool for NEAR AZbang/hot-connector Latest Release
wallet-selector Legacy wallet integration tool for NEAR near/wallet-selector Latest Release
web3-onboard Wallet integration tool for multichain blocknative/web3-onboard Latest Release
FastAuth SDK Allows users to recover or sign-up for a NEAR account using their email address Peersyst/fast-auth
iDOS Decentralized identity, storage, and verification idos-network/idos-sdk-js

🔌 API

Name Description Repo Latest Release
near-jsonrpc-client-rs API for RS projects near-jsonrpc-client-rs
near-api-js API tool for frontend & backend JS libraries near/near-api-js Latest Release
fastnear A low-latency API for wallets and explorers fastnear/fastnear-api-server-rs
QueryApi Build custom indexers and query with GraphQL endpoints near/queryapi

📝 Smart Contracts

Name Description Repo Latest Release
near-sdk-js Create smart contracts w/ JavaScript near/near-sdk-js Latest Release
near-sdk-rs Create smart contracts w/ Rust near/near-sdk-rs Latest Release
Keypom Customizable key creation for NFT/FT drops keypom/keypom Latest Release

🧪 Testing

Name Description Repo Latest Release
workspaces-js Testing sandbox written in JS near/workspaces-js Latest Release
workspaces-rs Testing sandbox written in Rust near/workspaces-rs Latest Release

🔎 Blockchain Data Indexing

Name Description Repo Latest Release
fastnear A low-latency API for wallets and explorers fastnear/fastnear-api-server-rs
near-lake-indexer Built on NEAR Indexer that stores JSON in AWS S3 bucket near/near-lake-indexer Latest Release
near-lake-framework-rs Stream blocks from NEAR Lake into your server near/near-lake-framework-rs Latest Release
near-lake-framework-js Stream blocks from NEAR Lake into your server near/near-lake-framework-js
QueryApi Build custom indexers and query with GraphQL endpoints (deprecated) near/queryapi

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  1. nearcore nearcore Public

    Reference client for NEAR Protocol

    Rust 2.5k 726

  2. NEPs NEPs Public

    The Near Enhancement Proposals repository

    233 162

  3. core-contracts core-contracts Public

    Core contracts: reference staking pool, lockup, voting, whitelist, multisig.

    Rust 335 140

  4. near-api-js near-api-js Public

    JavaScript library to interact with NEAR Protocol via RPC API

    TypeScript 415 261

  5. create-near-app create-near-app Public

    Create a starter app hooked up to the NEAR blockchain

    TypeScript 365 160

  6. near-cli-rs near-cli-rs Public

    near CLI is your human-friendly companion that helps to interact with NEAR Protocol from command line.

    Rust 130 73

Repositories

Showing 10 of 264 repositories
  • docs Public

    NEAR Protocol Documentation

    near/docs’s past year of commit activity
    SCSS 172 Apache-2.0 467 57 (1 issue needs help) 6 Updated Nov 7, 2025
  • nearcore Public

    Reference client for NEAR Protocol

    near/nearcore’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 2,522 GPL-3.0 726 260 91 Updated Nov 7, 2025
  • mpc Public

    MPC Node. Implements secure multi-party threshold signature generation as part of NEAR's chain abstraction infrastructure

    near/mpc’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 24 MIT 12 211 (10 issues need help) 8 Updated Nov 7, 2025
  • .github Public
    near/.github’s past year of commit activity
    3 8 0 1 Updated Nov 7, 2025
  • near-cli-rs Public

    near CLI is your human-friendly companion that helps to interact with NEAR Protocol from command line.

    near/near-cli-rs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 130 Apache-2.0 73 14 (4 issues need help) 4 Updated Nov 7, 2025
  • near/near-jsonrpc-client-ts’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 7 MIT 2 7 1 Updated Nov 7, 2025
  • wallet-selector Public

    This is a wallet selector modal that allows users to interact with NEAR dApps with a selection of available wallets.

    near/wallet-selector’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 176 Apache-2.0 186 18 6 Updated Nov 7, 2025
  • intents Public

    Set of contracts for the NEAR Intents project

    near/intents’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 37 MIT 15 0 3 Updated Nov 6, 2025
  • threshold-signatures Public

    Threshold signature schemes for the NEAR MPC system.

    near/threshold-signatures’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 4 MIT 3 35 (7 issues need help) 5 Updated Nov 6, 2025
  • near-sandbox-rs Public

    Rust library for running a local NEAR blockchain node for development and testing.

    near/near-sandbox-rs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 5 GPL-3.0 1 3 2 Updated Nov 6, 2025