Developing with Foundry

Ponder makes it convenient to test indexing events when developing your dapp locally. Check out the foundry example to see an example on how you can get started working with ponder and foundry.

Before you begin, make sure you have followed the installation and getting started guides.

Creating an anvil network

In your ponder.config.ts file, add a new network with the name anvil. Use the same chain ID as your anvil node, and the http transport with the URL of your anvil node.

export const config: Config = {
  // ...
  networks: [
    // ...
    {
      name: "anvil",
      chainId: 31337,
      transport: http(process.env.PONDER_RPC_URL_8545),
    },
  ],

Generating the ABI

Ponder uses the ABI to generate the typescript types for your contracts. To generate the ABI, we recommend using the wagmi cli tool with the foundry plugin. Follow the steps in the wagmi documentation to set up an ABI generation pipeline. You can see an example of this in the foundry example

Running anvil

After generating the ABI and adding the anvil network to your ponder.config.ts file, you can start your anvil node. Then, run ponder dev in a separate terminal window. Ponder will automatically detect the anvil network and will start listening for events and index them as expected.

Restarting anvil and ponder

If you restart your anvil node, you will need to reload ponder's DB to ensure that the indexer is up to date. To make this convenient for you during new deployments to anvil, we provided a route available only during development. You can use this URL to reload your DB and start indexing from scratch. To use this URL, run the following command:

curl -X POST http://localhost:42069/admin/reload?chainId=31337