PoC Innovation - Student Program Journey

[RezaRahemtola]

Hello 👋

Welcome to our first issue where you can expect regular updates from our adventure in the Gno ecosystem 😄

We are 4 students - @Molaryy (Mohammed), @lennyvong (Lenny), @agherasie (Alex) , @RezaRahemtola (Reza) - from the student innovation center PoC, based in EPITECH.

We all have different backgrounds and experiences around software and blockchain from hackathons, freelance missions or internships (but also some cyber-security for Lenny and AI for Alex) and are exited to deep dive and contribute to Gno 🚀

In this issue, you'll be able to follow our journey for the next 3 months (until August 21st).

Let's gno 🔥

Hackerspace issue for https://github.com/gnolang/student-contributors-program/blob/main/poc-innovation-fr/README.md

[RezaRahemtola]

Looks like I don't have the rights to add labels / assignees etc 🥲

[RezaRahemtola]

First issue & PRs:

• gno.mod files not rendered in gnoweb for realms
  • Issue: [gnoweb] Clicking the gno.mod source on realms returns 404 gno#2277
  • PR: fix: Handle .mod files for realms in gnoweb gno#2278
• Typos: style: Fixing some typos gno#2279
• Broken indentation in the docs: docs: Fix wrong indentation in concepts/packages gno#2287

[agherasie]

Hi !
I opened my first mini PR :

• cursor: pointer when hovering over Light/Dark mode toggle button
  • fix(gnoweb): Cursor pointer when hovering over dark mode theme gno#2280 (comment)

[agherasie]

Yesterday me and @Molaryy followed most of the how-to guides from the docs.
We opened an issue regarding a problem we encountered with the write a simple dapp guide

• Missing return value error in Poll tutorial gno#2310

After following the guides, I build a very quick react app which interacted with the counter example by calling Increment and Render using adena
It was pretty easy, but one thing that had me stuck for a while was the difference in output between the Js/Adena implementation and the gnokey cli when calling the Render() function.

• In JS, I received an object containing ResponseBase which is a base64 encoded version of the Render() function output
• As for the cli, it directly decrypted the response before outputting it to the terminal

This isn't really an issue so I didn't think it was necessary to open one (especially since once you know the answer, it does seem really obvious what ResponseBase contains from reading the name), but I did think it was a little confusing and it seems like I'm not the only one (the way I realised the solution is by finding the same question being asked on the discord)
Maybe the JS response could be changed to ResponseBase64 to make it really obvious how to retrieve the actual value ?

[RezaRahemtola]

This week and the next I'll focus on writing my first real lines of Gno by playing around tokens and the gno-js library

I'll sum up the issues and problems I encountered below:

• GRC-20 tutorial: Really great and concise, but I had a small issue while playing with it in the Playground:
  • docs(guides/grc20): Fix playground link with correct code gno#2315
• GRC-721 tutorial was removed after consulting the team, it's being refactored as its outdated
• Wrong docs link on the gno-js-client README on NPM: Docs link in the NPM README is broken gno-js-client#127
• Wrong repo link in the VSCode syntax highlighting extension: docs(README): Update gnopls repository link harry-hov/vscode-gno#5
• Wrong argument in gno-js example: docs(gno-js): Remove wrong param in getFileContent gno#2419
• Unsupported height param in gno-js providers not explained in the docs: Add a warning in the docs for the height param not supported yet in Provider methods gno-js-client#128
• Bug recently introduced makes gno-js's provider.evaluateExpression timeout gno#2420
• docs(gno-js): Add provider instantiation docs gno#2427
• feat(gnoweb): Docs link to gnokey list with specific anchor gno#2428

[Molaryy]

Hey,

First time writing a report here 😄. So I've done the entire guides and did a few PRs and issues to understand to fix some things:

PRs:

• chore(docs): fix example rpcclient.NewHTTPClient returning variables gno#2352

Issues:

• importing "std" not working in gno.playground gno#2306

[RezaRahemtola]

Started working on gnovox, a Medium-like platform.

Below are the issues / PRs I created based on my feedbacks and needs on this project:

• request: Add a CheckConnection method onbloc/adena-wallet#525
• request: Create a small SDK / package to simplify interactions onbloc/adena-wallet#526
• Wrong footnotes order (need update to docusaurus v3) docs.gno.land#49

[agherasie]

I've been working on some projects like futuregno and openocean with @Molaryy so that I can learn gno development
I wanted to make another contribution in the meantime, so I checked what Issues were available and made an attempt to solve the issue gnolang/gno#2458 by opening the gnolang/gno#2461 PR
While doing this, I also noticed that there was a problem with the way the gnoweb footer was displayed on some pages so I opened gnolang/gno#2462 to fix it

[agherasie]

For the past few weeks I've been working on separate projects and this week I've started deploying them to test4 !

• gno-forms / web-app
• gno-disperse / web-app

The PRs are coming soon, I just need to handle open and closing dates for gno-forms and add more error handling to gno-disperse with @lennyvong

• While working on gno-disperse, I had trouble writing tests because of a problem with gno test adding a default balance to realms; as a workaround I decided to write txtar tests instead which was pretty cool !
• I also stumbled upon a bug with gnoscan while I was testing my deployed realms

My experience with test4

Since I won't be able to make it to the contributor call tomorrow, I wanted to deploy my projects so they can be easier to try out for everyone ! So today I deployed my first packages/realms to `test4`, which was pretty nice ! It was kind of annoying to have to use the faucet over and over to cover the gas fees initially but other than that the experience was pretty smooth and everything worked as expected.

[agherasie]

Two of my projects are finally ready to be added to the examples so I opened two new PRs :

• feat(examples): add disperse (v2) gno#2613
• feat(examples): forms gno#2604

[RezaRahemtola]

A few things I worked on during the last weeks:

• Suggestion: AI assistant for Gno gno#2611
• SwitchNetwork returns a failure status when switching to the same network onbloc/adena-wallet#538
• feat: Check connection method onbloc/adena-wallet#539
• feat: PoC of the SDK onbloc/adena-wallet-sdk#1