curl https://install.fuel.network | sh

Make sure you have the latest version of the Fuel Wallet Icon Link installed.

Additionally for this guide, ensure you're using Node.js/npm version 18.18.2 || ^20.0.0. You can check your Node.js version with:

node -v

Start with a new empty folder and name it fuel-project.

mkdir fuel-project

Go into the fuel-project folder:

cd fuel-project

Within your terminal start by creating a new Sway project called contract:

forc new contract

Your project structure generated from the forc command should like this:

tree contract

contract
├── Forc.toml
└── src
    └── main.sw

1 directory, 2 files

Move into your contract folder:

cd contract

Open up the contract folder in VSCode, and inside the src folder you should see a file called main.sw. This is where you will write your Sway contract.

Since we're creating a brand new contract you can delete everything in this file except for the contract keyword.

contract;

The first line of the file is specifically reserved to inform the compiler whether we are writing a contract, script, predicate, or library. To designate the file as a contract, use the contract keyword.