Overview

The best place to start is a TON Hello World guide of how to create your first Web App:

• TON Hello World: Step by step guide for building your first web client

Tools

Here you can see links to the most important resources for you to get started with TON:

• Wallets — a list of popular wallets for TON.
• Explorers — to track transactions in the blockchain.
• Testnet — info about the testnet and how to use it.
• Unfreezer - Unfreeze a TON contract that ran out of gas for rent.

Examples

If you are a web or bot developer, you may find the following repositories useful:

JavaScript

• Payment processing using JavaScript:
  • Create a key pair and a wallet (tonweb)
  • Accepting deposits to a single wallet (tonweb)
  • Accepting deposits to multiple wallets (tonweb)
  • Withdrawal process (tonweb)
  • Payment channel example (tonweb)
• TON Bridge front-end (Vue.js, no comments)
• Web Wallet source code (tonweb, no comments)
• Bot for sales of dumplings

Python

• psylopank/pytonlib examples
• Transfer NFT & Jettons by creating a transfer message from the owner wallet
• Create mnemonic, init wallet class, create an external message to deploy the wallet
• Storefront bot with payments in TON
• Bot with own balance

Go

• 10+ examples from xssnick/tonutils-go
• 7+ examples from tonkeeper/tongo

Most popular SDK

Here is a list of modern SDKs that are constantly supported and improved:

JavaScript SDK

• ton-community/ton — Modern cross-platform client for TON by the TON Community
• toncenter/tonweb — cross-platform client for TON Blockchain by TON Center
• @tegro/ton3-client — JS ton3-client for tonhold API by TonHold
• nns2009/ton-payment-tracker — TON payment tracker.

Python SDK

• psylopunk/pytonlib — Python SDK (ADNL API)
• toncenter/pytonlib — Python SDK (ADNL API)
• tonfactory/tonsdk — Analogue of the tonweb js library (TON Center HTTP API)
• tons — Easy-to-use CLI to work with TON wallets.

Go SDK

• xssnick/tonutils-go — Golang SDK for TON Blockchain.
• tonkeeper/tongo — Golang SDK with native ADNL support, cells manipulations and CGO for TVM and tx emulations.

Kotlin / Java SDK

• ton-kotlin — Kotlin SDK for TON Blockchain

Rust SDK

• ston-fi/tonlib-rs — Rust SDK for The Open Network.

Telegram WebApps (TWA)

• Telegram WebApps Documentation — full description on Telegram website.

SDK

• ton-defi-org/tonstarter-twa — template for new TWA interaction with TON
• twa-dev/boilerplate — another boilerplate for a new TWA.
• twa-dev/sdk — NPM package for TWA SDK
• twa-dev/Mark42 — Mark42 is a simple lightweight tree-shakable UI library for TWA

Community

Join a special Telegram Community Chat for TWA developers if you're interested.

Authorization SDK

To add login button to your website or web app use the following:

TON Connect

ton-connect is a unified authorization standard for every wallet in the TON ecosystem. It's supported and developed by Tonkeeper team with tech advisors from TON Community.

Documentation

• Introducing TON Connect
• TON Connect for Developers
• TON Connect 2.0 vs 1.0

Development

• ton-connect/sdk — JS SDK for authorization
• ton-connect/docs — Documentation of standard
• ton-connect/wallets-list — list of supported wallets (add yours!)

TonLib SDK

low-level

These technologies contains very low-level stack, so please use it if any other SDKs don't work for you. It will save a lot of your time.

TonLib was one of the first libraries for working with TON Blockchain.

• C++ TonLib
• Python TonLib wrapper
• Golang TonLib wrapper
• Java TonLib wrapper (JNI)
• tonlib-xcframework—builder for Apple that generates .xcramework for all architectures
• labraburn/SwiftyTON—native Swift wrapper for tonlib with async/await
• labraburn/node-tonlib—C++ addon for NodeJS to work with tonlibjson

Usage examples

• Desktop standard wallet (C++ and Qt)
• Android standard wallet (Java)
• iOS standard wallet (Swift)
• TonLib CLI (C++)

APIs

• Go to API section to read more about APIs in TON