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Before You Start

It's a good idea to look at the toolbox before you start building. This section will give you a quick overview of the most important tools to get started:

  • How you can interact with IOTA Nodes using the CLI or the available SDKs.
  • IDEs and plugins.

Interact with IOTA​

IOTA CLI​

The IOTA CLI provides a handy interface you can use to perform all sorts of operation with IOTA nodes.

IOTA SDKs​

IOTA provides two official SDKs that you can use to interact with the IOTA network from your dApp:

Move IDEs and plugins​

We recommend that you use the Visual Studio Code IDE with the IOTA Move extension installed.