Setup local development for Sonic SVM

This quick start guide will demonstrate how to quickly install and set up your local development environment, getting you ready to start developing and deploying Solana programs to the blockchain.

Sonic's local development environment should be very similar to setting up the Solana's local development environment.

1. Install the Solana CLI

Follow this official guide to setup the Solana CLI locally. If you already have it setup, you may skip this step.

2. Configure your Sonic Cluster

After setting up the Solana CLI, you can configure it to point to the Sonic Devnet Cluster for development. Learn more about Sonic's clusters here.

After installing the Solana CLI you can run the following command to ensure that it's correctly installed.

solana config get