Community Meeting April 21 Discussion - Workspaces RS

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Community Meeting April 21 Notes

For a getting started overview of workspaces-rs check out the README in GitHub.

What Changed: from 0.1 into 0.2 workspaces-rs

Fast Forwarding

What: Developers now have the ability to move ahead in block height, effectively simulating the ability to travel into the future.
Why: This helps with testing code that is time dependant, or requires multi-block transactions
Examples: Check out the simple example examples/fast_forward. A more involved example involving cron.cat is currently in development. You will be able to see it at examples/croncat.rs in the coming weeks.

Compile Project

What: New unstable feature compile_project. This feature allows users to point to a specific rust smart contract project, and have the tests compile it for them on the fly, instead of pre-compiling it manually.
Why: This change should make compilation more convenient and reduce the time otherwise spent manually compiling.

Other Changes

Spinning up sandbox now requires an .await to wait for the sandbox to completely be brought up before making calls into it.

Feedback

Workspaces is the future of testing on NEAR. Please give it a try, let us know what we're missing, and how to improve. Please leave any feedback or questions in this discussion thread!

Specific asks:

1. Feedback on compile_project - give it a try! Is this an effective helper?
2. Broad feedback on workspaces from a project that already uses sim-tests. We will be supporting workspaces long term, so we want to make it easy as possible to migrate to workspaces.