Node Public Interfaces Team Weekly Update - 2021-11-05

[frol]

The previous update is #5075. See more engineering updates posted on gov.near.org

Brief Summary

• near-jsonrpc-client-rs is published to crates.io! Kudos to @miraclx!

• NFT Events standard is ready for adoption! Please, upgrade your contracts to get support of your NFT contracts on Wallet and Explorer

  • This week we baked the support for NFT Events into Indexer for Explorer (powering Explorer, Wallet, and many other community projects!)
    feat: add NFT events support near-indexer-for-explorer#169
  • As a follow-up, get involved with FT Events NEP discussion here:
    FT NEP-141 require having minting/burning interface NEPs#271

• Node Interfaces team is going to own and maintain lockups infrastructure (documentation, smart contract, admin UI, view UI [integrated into Explorer])! We will post more details in the upcoming weeks

Blockers

None!

Result

(Acronyms: O - Objective, KR - Key Result)

• O1: Support success of DevConsole

  • KR1: Provide knowledge, experience and hands-on help with DevConsole bootstrap
    • Helped to review and design near-cli-rs UX (@frol)
      New commands layout near-cli-rs#75

• O3: Remove friction from building dApps

  • KR1: FT / NFT information is easily available for the developers

    • Finalized NFT Events support in Indexer for Explorer (@telezhnaya)
      feat: add NFT events support near-indexer-for-explorer#169
    • Initialized FT Events NEP discussion (@telezhnaya)
      FT NEP-141 require having minting/burning interface NEPs#271
    • Provided an initial review on multi-token NEP (@telezhnaya @frol)
      feat: Multi Token Standard Contract [NEP] NEPs#245

  • KR3: Release near-jsonrpc-client-rs [COMPLETED ✔️]

    • Published v0.1.0 of the client as well as v0.5.0 of nearcore primitive crates (@miraclx)
      re: chore: ready workspace for publishing #5130
    • Brushing up the final pieces of the automated publishing system (@miraclx)
    • Contributed substantially to a third party crate - cargo-workspaces we're employing on the tooling side to handle our crate versioning and eventual publishing (@miraclx)
      pksunkara/cargo-workspaces@master...miraclx:grouping-and-exclusion
    • Upgraded the client to Rust 2021 and contributed to it's upgrade on nearcore (@miraclx)
      Upgrade to MSRV 1.56 + 2021 edition near-jsonrpc-client-rs#21
      chore: upgrade to Rust 2021 #5070

  • KR5: Maintain 99.(9)% uptime for Indexer for Explorer

    • Drafted Indexer for Explorer troubleshooting guide (@khorolets)
      refactor: Upgrade to nearcore 1.22.0.rc4 near-indexer-for-explorer#185

• O4: Give users better insights about the current and historical status of the network

  • KR2: Explorer enables efficient exploration of NEAR history (navigation through history & search improvements)
    • Drafted a plan to speed up transactions count for each account on Explorer (@telezhnaya)
      Optimize the computation of total transaction count for each account near-explorer#773

• Evergreen:

  • Refactored all queries on NEAR Explorer and moved them from the frontend to the backend (@shelegdmitriy)
    refactor: Move queries to backend near-explorer#774
  • Helped NEAR Foundation with collecting information about tokens locked in lockup contracts (@telezhnaya)
    Provide the financial department with foundation accounts details account-lookup#13
  • Helped NEAR Foundation with on-boarding their analytics team and reviewed their PRs (@frol @telezhnaya)
    feat: introduced a manually-curated near_ecosystem_entities table near-analytics#22
  • Supported the Indexer Framework users resolving their issues related to nearcore syncing process (@khorolets @frol)
    Node should not stuck on applying state #5049
    Node should not stuck in state sync loop #5061
    Regular OOM crashes on v1.22.0-rc.2 and backup node remains in state sync attempt for > 24 hours  #5078
    https://stackoverflow.com/q/69799326/1178806
  • Reviewed lockup contract once more (@frol @telezhnaya)
    ADD fix for lockupTimestamp calc for broken timestamp contracts account-lookup#12
    lockup: add graphs with schedule with lockup_duration to the doc wiki#16

Hackathon + dogfooding 🎉

• @telezhnaya created and deployed (on localnet) a smart contract that quacks like real NFT contract. While doing this, we found a few UX issues in near-cli-js 😝
  create-account does not save the keypair near-cli#865
  Unable to provide paths (e.g., to keys) with ~ near-cli#869
• @miraclx created a smart contract that mimics the rating system from one of the Black Mirror series episode (Nosedive:
  https://github.com/miraclx/nosedive-rs/blob/master/contract/src/lib.rs