Tutorials

Hands-on, build-something walkthroughs. Where the Developer Guide covers each tool and the SDK Reference documents every function, a tutorial takes you end to end — from an empty project to a working ENC app you can run.

Build a custom Personal app

The first tutorial builds a small custom Personal app on the personal App SDK (@enc-protocol/personal-cli → PersonalSdk). You'll:

• run a node gated by an admission hook that admits only your owner identity, and mint your own Personal enclave from a manifest;
• write public posts and owner-only private notes, the public/private boundary enforced by the enclave's RBAC;
• run a hand-written dataview that projects public posts into a cross-enclave profiles feed;
• read it all from a real Vite + React frontend that signs through the ENC wallet extension — your key never touches the app.

By the end you'll have a personal micro-app — your own public posts and a private vault — backed by a verifiable enclave, with the wallet signing and the node enforcing RBAC.

Prerequisites

• Node 18+ and the SDK installed (@enc-protocol/client).
• Wrangler — the Cloudflare Workers CLI — used to run the node, the dataview, and the frontend locally and to deploy them. Install it with npm install -g wrangler (or call it via npx wrangler), and confirm with wrangler --version.
• The ENC wallet extension — the frontend in step 4 signs through it.
• A clone of impl-node — the node you run in step 1.

It builds directly on the foundations from the Developer Guide — if you haven't yet, skim Building with the SDK first for the identity → enclave → submit/query → verify loop this tutorial puts to work.

The build, step by step

The six pieces you'll assemble — each numbered to the step that builds it:

1. Run a local node
2. Run a dataview server
3. Deploy the Personal enclave
4. Write the frontend app
5. Write a test
6. Deploy to production

Start → Run a local node