Solar Space

Solar Spaces are accessible dev containers focused on collaborating and sharing Ethereum projects, here to bring you the best possible developer experience.

A solar spaces runs on your local machine or in your browser via GitHub Codespace.

Create Solar Space

🚧 Heads up! Solar Space is still in early development and things may change or break at any time — including backward compatibility. Please don’t use it in production environments just yet. If you spot a bug or have a suggestion, please open an issue on GitHub.

Free and Open Source

Free and Open Source

Solar Spaces is a FLOSS platform featuring a collection of truly great free and open-source tools.

Batteries included

Batteries included

Solar Spaces come with pre-installed developer tools for Solidity and Vyper, including Foundry, Hardhat, Simbolik, and many more.

Customizable

Personalize & Customize

Missing a tool? Simply add it to your space, or modifiy your devcontainer and share it with frens. Want to re-use your VSCode settings? No problem! Just turn on settings sync.

Unobtrusive

Seamless & Unobtrusive

It's your code, your dev environment, and your usage data. Solar Spaces don't lock you into a proprietary ecosystem. Use what you like, and leave what you don't like.

Local or Cloud

Local & Cloud with VSCode

Work locally on your computer, or remotely on a GitHub codespace. All while using the same VSCode experience.

Sharable

Sharable

Solar Spaces are only possible becase of the amazing work done by the open-source community. And we embrace a culture of sharing, making it easy to share your code and your dev environment with others.

❶ Create a space

❷ Share your space

How it works

Solar Spaces are regular GitHub repositories with a special devcontainer designed for Solidity development. You can work on your repository by cloning it locally or by opening it in a GitHub Codespace. In addition to the devcontainer, https://solarspace.dev provides smart URLs that make it easy to create and share your workspace with others.

The most common one is: 

https://solarspace.dev/github/{owner}/{repo}

This link automatically opens a Codespace for the given repository. If you already have one running, it’ll reopen it. Otherwise, it will spin up a new one.

Want to specify a branch? Use:

https://solarspace.dev/github/{repo}?ref={branch}

If you're only interested in the devcontainer and not the smart URLs, feel free to fork our template project. And if you change your mind later — no problem! You can always use the smart URLs to share your space whenever you're ready.

Devcontainer

The default devcontainer for Solar Spaces comes with the following features and more. It's designed to run locally or on GitHub code spaces. The devcontainer is forked from The Red Guild devcontainer - who deserve all the credit for this amazing work.

Features

  • Foundry
  • Hardhat
  • Solidity Compiler
  • Vyper Compiler
  • Simbolik: Solidity Debugger
  • And more...
Create Solar Space