[Report] Aha Labs: EiRs doing educational support & building dev tools. January 2022

One-liner: Support NCD learners; make tools & resources to ease learning NEAR.

Project Summary

Aha Labs offers professional guidance and insight to the NCD program and develops cutting-edge educational materials and tooling for anyone learning NEAR.

Project Members

• Chad Ostrowski - @chadoh
• Willem Wynhdam - @willemneal

Period

January 13-31, 2022

@chadoh’s highlights

• Help host orientation sessions for new NCD students
• Reviewed applications for NCD
• Guest-lectured for NCD
• Based on student feedback, built a create-react-app template for NEAR using TypeScript
• In addition to create-react-app, researched other frontend solutions for a forthcoming NEAR site-builder/tutorial
• Started troubleshooting an NCD example frontend

@willemneal’s highlights

• Create initial functional NEAR witgen to go from near-sdk-rs smart contracts to WIT
• Made several improvements to witgen (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) that enabled the above
• Create initial functional version of WIT to TypeScript wit-bindgen
• Land near-sdk-rs improvement to add Events to NFTs
• Help community with TypeScript questions