Creating a New Project

The first step to using Brownie is to initialize a new project. This can be done in two ways:

1. Create an empty project using brownie init.
2. Create a project from an existing template using brownie bake.

Creating an Empty Project

To initialize an empty project, start by creating a new folder. From within that folder, type:

$ brownie init

An empty project structure is created within the folder.

Creating a Project from a Template

You can initialize “Brownie mixes”, simple templates to build your project upon. For many examples within the Brownie documentation we will use the token mix, which is a very basic ERC-20 implementation.

Mixes are automatically created within a subfolder of their name. To initialize the token mix:

$ brownie bake token

This creates a new folder token/ and deploys the project inside it.

React Template

React-Mix is a bare-bones implementation of Create React App configured to work with Brownie. You can use it as a starting point for building your own React frontend for your dApp.

To initialize from this mix:

$ brownie bake react

See the React-Mix repo for more information on how to use React with Brownie.

Continuous Integration Template

Github-Actions-Mix is a template preconfigured for use with Github Actions continuous integration, as well as other useful tools.

To initialize from this mix:

$ brownie bake github-actions

See the Github-Actions-Mix repo for a detailed explanation of how to configure and use the tools within this template.