Why We Built Starkweb 🐺
The Problems
Building applications on Starknet presents unique challenges. Developers must enable wallet connections, handle multi-chain support, sign messages, process transactions, monitor events and state changes, and refresh data while providing an intuitive user experience. In addition, Starknet's evolving ecosystem requires constant adaptation to new updates and best practices.
Wolf addresses these challenges, focusing on developer experience, performance, comprehensive feature support, and stability. With Wolf, developers can concentrate on building high-quality applications without the usual friction.
Developer Experience
Starkweb delivers a smooth developer experience with modular APIs, type-safe interfaces, and detailed documentation.
Starkweb's intuitive components and modular design make building and adapting Starknet applications easy. Starkweb's explicitly designed APIs allow developers to arrange, adapt, or replace components as needed. This approach helps developers build and learn Starknet's core principles.
With strongly typed APIs, Wolf ensures smooth development by providing autocompletion, type inference, and error validation. Adding an ABI lets Wolf guide developers with helpful suggestions and catch errors before they reach production.
The documentation details every module, with usage examples to simplify adoption. The Wolf team follows a documentation and test-driven development approach, ensuring the API remains intuitive, reliable, and easy to use.
Performance
Efficient performance is key to delivering a smooth user experience. Slow interactions can lead users to leave an application.
Wolf is optimized to minimize overhead, ensuring users can interact with Starknet apps quickly and without heavy downloads. By supporting tree-shaking and dead-code elimination, Wolf helps keep bundle sizes small for faster load times.
Wolf also optimizes the data layer with caching, deduplication, and persistence, minimizing redundant or slow data fetching and reducing RPC costs. This performance-first approach keeps applications responsive and efficient.
Feature Coverage
Wolf provides essential Starknet functionalities, including support for wallets, accounts, contracts, transactions, and signing operations. Its extensible API enables easy integration with various Starknet wallets, ensuring broad compatibility and a smooth user experience.
For developers who need more control, Wolf's flexibility allows access to low-level functions for custom implementations. Wolf also manages multi-chain support, so developers can focus on building their applications without getting bogged down in the details.
Stability
Stability is fundamental to Wolf and is designed to be a dependable tool for developers of all sizes.
Wolf's rigorous test suite ensures compatibility and reliability across different versions of Starknet, minimizing potential issues. Each release undergoes thorough testing, including type tests against major dependencies like TypeScript, to maintain consistent performance across updates.
Following semantic versioning (semver), Wolf provides confidence in each release. New features are introduced as opt-ins so developers can upgrade without worrying about breaking changes.
The Wolf team is dedicated to actively maintaining and improving the APIs, ensuring they stay current with Starknet's latest developments.