First time using ape. How can I setup properly?

[Aviksaikat]

Hi, I would like to share the tips and tricks I currently use to develop projects.

1. Use a virtual environment of your choice. You can use poetry, pdm, pyenve etc.
2. Activate the environment & install ape

# poetry
poetry new ape_project
poetry add eth-ape

# pdm
mkdir ape_project; cd ape_project
pdm init
pdm add eth-ape

3. do ape init

# poetry
poetry run ape init

# pdm
pdm run ape init

4. Your project is ready to go. You can add plugins manually or you can add them first in ape-config.yaml and then install them all at once

# poetry
poetry run ape plugins install .

# pdm
pdm run ape plugins install .

5. Or you can avoid all this by pressing this button --> I BELIEVE YOU BRO and run the script.

ape-config.yaml

• Minimal ape-config setup with foundry. Install ape-foundry, ape-alchemy, ape-solidity plugins & foundry and ape to make it work.

• ape-config.yaml

name: tmp
plugins:
  - name: solidity
  - name: alchemy
  - name: foundry
ethereum:
  default_network: mainnet-fork
  mainnet_fork:
    default_provider: foundry
    gas_limit: auto
    transaction_acceptance_timeout: 180
    default_transaction_type: 0
  mainnet:
    default_provider: alchemy
    transaction_acceptance_timeout: 180
foundry:
  fork:
    ethereum:
      mainnet_fork:
        upstream_provider: alchemy
test:
  mnemonic: test test test test test test test test test test test junk
  number_of_accounts: 10