CPS Proposal: # Drogon Proposal 2 (Continuation)

Contribution Proposals
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Full proposal HERE

Overview

Drogon is a robust, lightweight application development framework used for developing, testing, and deploying smart contracts on the ICON blockchain. The core features of the Drogon makes ICON smart contract developers’ life easy by providing support for multiple contract compilations, tests, and deploying on a public and private network.

In the previous proposal, we have completed the milestone - M01 successfuly. You can find the project on the project Drogon 0.1.0: in dev-0.1.0 branch.

M01

  • :white_check_mark: Create Drogon framework that supports compilation and testing

  • :white_check_mark: Support deploying contracts to a private network using the Drogon framework

  • :white_check_mark: Support deploying contracts to public networks using the Drogon framework

The current proposal is to achieve the milestones of M02:

  • Documentation

  • Enhancements to Drogon

  • Testing Drogon Beta

  • Release Drogon Beta

  • Community distribution and beta testing

  • Work with community DAOs and make tutorials and walkthroughs

  • Bug fixes/enhancements to Drogon based on the community feedback.

Features

Drogon offers:

  • end-to-end build cycle support for development, testing, and deploying smart contracts

  • support for testing Unit and integration tests

  • Scriptable deployment framework

  • Deployment management for deploying to public and private networks

  • Interactive console to directly communicate with public and private networks

  • Clear documentation for developers

Why Drogon?

  • Lack of smart contract testing setup

  • Lack of easy to use ICON smart contract life cycle management

  • Lack of development framework that focuses on ICON smart contract developers

Goals

  • Development framework that focuses on ICON blockchain

  • Support for smart contract life cycle management

  • Support for unit and integration tests for smart contracts

  • Support for REPL interface to interact with public and private networks

  • Documentation

Milestones (Months 1-4)

M01

  • :white_check_mark: Create Drogon framework that supports compilation and testing

  • :white_check_mark: Support deploying contracts to a private network using the Drogon framework

  • :white_check_mark: Support deploying contracts to public networks using the Drogon framework

M02 (Months 5-8)

  • Documentation

  • Enhancements to Drogon

  • Testing Drogon Beta

  • Release Drogon Beta

  • Community distribution and beta testing

  • Work with community DAOs and make some tutorials

Team credentials:

The team is based out of Amsterdam and consists of experts in the blockchain and security field (team lead Chai - x.com), having already built a truffle/hardhat version for another non-evm chain (GitHub - ant4g0nist/chinstrap: A development environment, testing framework, and origination pipeline focused solely on Tezos 2), and in receipt of grants from Coinbase and the Tezos Foundation for both tooling and security in blockchain.

The team involved in this project:

  • Senior Software Developer

  • Senior Software Developer

  • Project Manager (who is also a Senior Software Developer), overlooks the project and continously has meetings with the foundation

Total team cost per month: $16,000

Message from Sponsor
The team has delivered on their M01 and showed great qualities. The team is also frequently having meeting with the ICON foundation who assesses the progress.

The tool is much needed to help onboard more devs to ICON as the development area will be much more simpler. This will put ICON development on par with other chains that have tools such as Hardhat.