Tevm quickstart feedback

[dionysuzx]

I am going to use this as a working friction log for the Tevm quick start guide.

Creating / installing

1. npm create tevm my-app didn't work. (bun init && bun install tevm worked fine though!)

   npm ERR! code E404
   npm ERR! 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/create-tevm - Not found
   npm ERR! 404
   npm ERR! 404  'create-tevm@*' is not in this registry.
   

Running the Ethereum JSON-RPC stuff

1. Module '"tevm"' has no exported member 'EthGetBalanceRequest'.: https://tevm.sh/getting-started/quick-start/#using-ethereum-json-rpc.
2. bun run index.ts errored out:

   ❯ bun run index.ts
   613 |   jsonrpc: "2.0",
   614 |   method: req.method,
   615 |   result: numberToHex(
   616 |     await getBalanceHandler({ vm, forkUrl })({
   617 |       address: req.params[0],
   618 |       ...req.params[1].startsWith("0x") ? { blockNumber: BigInt(req.params[1]) } : {
                  ^
   TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'req.params[1].startsWith')
         at ~/fun/demo/tevm-app/node_modules/@tevm/procedures/dist/index.js:618:10
         at ~/fun/demo/tevm-app/node_modules/@tevm/procedures/dist/index.js:611:55
         at ~/fun/demo/tevm-app/node_modules/@tevm/procedures/dist/index.js:72:17
         at ~/fun/demo/tevm-app/index.ts:13:24
   

[roninjin10]

npm create tevm my-app didn't work.

This one is not a bug this is an unreleased feature

Module '"tevm"' has no exported member 'EthGetBalanceRequest'.: https://tevm.sh/getting-started/quick-start/#using-ethereum-json-rpc.

This is a mistake in the docs. This request type is imported from tevm/procedures-types and it's called EthGetBalanceJsonRpcRequest not EthGetBalanceRequest

bun run index.ts

The docs had a bug in it and we could throw a nicer error message here