Run a Substrate Node

The substrate-contracts-node is a simple Substrate blockchain which is configured to include the contracts module.

It's a comfortable option if you want to get a quickstart.

After successfully installing substrate-contracts-node, you can start a local development chain by running:

substrate-contracts-node --dev

You should start to see blocks being produced by your node in your terminal.

You can interact with your node using the Contracts UI:

https://github.com/paritytech/contracts-ui

Now configure the UI to connect to the locally running node:

• Click on the dropdown selector at top left corner.
• Choose the Local Node.