Nix – Nextra

Building from the source code using nix

If you are using Nix, building blockfrost-platform is straightforward.

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/blockfrost/blockfrost-platform
 
# Navigate to the project directory
cd blockfrost-platform
 
# To build the latest main version (experimental)
git checkout main
 
# To build a release version (recommended)
# NOTE: this option will be available after the first release
# git checkout v0.1
 
# Build the project using nix
nix build

After the build is complete, you should see the binary file and can move on to the Usage section of this documentation.

$ ./result/bin/blockfrost-platform --version
blockfrost-platform 0.0.1

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