# Scaffolding a Project

The fastest way to a working project is the scaffolder:

```bash
npm create chainrender@latest my-app
```

You'll be asked **what you're building**:

- **Single component (T1)** — a minimal HTML page that renders a deployed component by its hash from one `eth_call`.
  Best for embedding a component in an existing site.
- **Mini-app (T2)** — a React project that composes an app and shows its tree check, content hash and grade live.
- **Full app (T3)** — a DeFi app skeleton in the flagship's shape: two views with slots you bind to your chain's DeFi
  resolver. Best starting point for a real dApp frontend.
- **Farcaster Mini App** — the render page plus a Mini App manifest stub.

For CI or an AI agent, skip the prompts: `npm create chainrender@latest my-app -- --template miniapp-react`.

Then:

```bash
cd my-app
npm install
npm run dev      # every template, HTML ones included (Vite serves the page so the SDK import resolves)
```

Every scaffold **starts at grade A**, and the React templates show the live `grade()` and `checkNode()` result as
you build. To render a deployed component, set the chain's RenderRouter address and your app hash (the HTML page
asks for them; React reads them from `.env` — copy `.env.example`). The scaffolder is manifest-driven: new templates are added as manifest
entries, never as forked code.

**Next:** **[Your First App](./first-app.md)** to understand what the scaffold generated.