Command line
Run the sandboxed Tableland network from the command line.
Installation
You can install the tool globally:
- npm
- Yarn
- pnpm
npm install -g @tableland/local@latest
yarn global add @tableland/local@latest
pnpm add -g @tableland/local@latest
Startup
To start running the Local Tableland network, do the following:
npx local-tableland
This will start a Local Tableland server on port http://localhost:8080 and a hardhat node on http://127.0.0.1:8545. For example, it's common that you'll pass the hardhat RPC URL to clients trying to send onchain transactions. For querying the Tableland network via the Gateway API, you can use the Local Tableland URL, such as making read queries with the query?statement=... endpoint and query param.
Available flags
There are a number of optional flags available:
| Flag | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
--help | boolean, defaults to false | Show help. |
--version | boolean, defaults to false | Show the version number. |
--silent | boolean, defaults to false | Silence all output to stdout. |
--verbose | boolean, defaults to false | Output verbose logs to stdout. |
--init | boolean, defaults to false | Initialize a Local Tableland config file. |
--docker | boolean, defaults to false | Initialize a Local Tableland config file. |
--validator | string | Path to the Tableland Validator directory (note: if the docker flag is set, this must be the full repository). |
--registry | string | Path to the Tableland Registry contract repository. |
--registryPort | string | Use a custom Registry port for hardhat. |
Logging
The --verbose flag allows you to see verbose logs from the Tableland validator node, which can be useful for debugging purposes. The --silent flag allows you to silence all logs from the Tableland validator node in case you'd like to run the node in the background. You can use these independently or together.
- silent
- verbose
npx local-tableland --silent
npx local-tableland --verbose
Configuration
The init option is optional and sets up a configuration file within your project. By default, the following tableland.config.js file comes with Local Tableland and is also what's created when running npx local-tableland --init:
module.exports = {
validatorDir: "../go-tableland",
registryDir: "../evm-tableland",
verbose: false,
silent: false,
};
If you'd like to override these, such as working with a different Tableland validator or silencing logged outputs, you can update these values accordingly. For most use cases, this is not necessary.
Docker
Under the hood, the Validator behaves a little differently when using Docker. The path structure changes slightly as compared to the default usage. If you'd like to use Local Tableland on a Docker image, simply pass the flag:
npx local-tableland --docker
Validator overrides
Instead of setting paths in the config file, the --validator flag allows you to override the default path to a go-tableland directory, which is the source code for a Tableland validator node. Recall the default path is ../go-tableland. If you'd like to, for example, point to some other location where this repo exists, it might look like the following:
npx local-tableland --validator /path/to/go-tableland
Registry overrides
Path
The --registry flag lets you to override the default path to a go-tableland directory, which is the source code for the Tableland registry smart contract. The default path is ../evm-tableland. To point to some other location where this repo exists, it might look like the following:
npx local-tableland --registry /path/to/evm-tableland
Port
You can set a custom Registry port for hardhat via the --registryPort flag; the default port is 8545. To set a custom port, it might look like the following, which would then use the RPC URL http://127.0.0.1:9999 instead of the default. This is useful in scenarios where port 8545 is already in use.
npx local-tableland --registryPort 9999
A word of caution. When you'd like to make any onchain actions (sending transactions, reading from contracts), this means the commonly used http://127.0.0.1:8545 must be replaced with http://127.0.0.1:9999. Some clients automatically look for 8545 with a local network, so it's something to keep an eye for and make sure you pass the new, custom URL.