Initialize Frontend

Now it's time to work on our Frontend. We will be using Next JS which is a popular react Framework used by many Web3 projects for frontends.

In your command prompt tool of choice navigate to any directory of choice and create your Next JS application using the Create Next App tool.

With NPM:

npx create-next-app@latest

With Yarn:

yarn create next-app

This is how we answered the Propts when creating the application:

What is your project named?  based-aa
Would you like to use TypeScript?  Yes
Would you like to use ESLint?  Yes
Would you like to use Tailwind CSS?  No
Would you like to use `src/` directory? Yes
Would you like to use App Router? (recommended)  No
Would you like to customize the default import alias?  Yes

info

Although the App router is mentioned as the preferred way of using Next, the pages router is much more stable at the time of writing this tutorial. We recommend saying no when promoted to use the App router.

You can follow the prompts to receive the scaffolding for your React application. You can use any of the package managers of your choice, but to keep things simple we will be using Yarn from this point.

Install the following dependencies:

yarn add @biconomy/account @biconomy/modules ethers@5.7.2 react-toastify

Additionaly to help with some polyfill errors we will need to update our next.config.js file which is located at the root of our project. Copy the code below and replace the current contents of the file:

/** @type {import('next').NextConfig} */
const nextConfig = {
  reactStrictMode: true,
  webpack: (config, { isServer }) => {
    if (!isServer) {
      config.resolve.fallback = {
        fs: false,
        net: false,
        tls: false,
      };
    }
    return config;
  },
};

module.exports = nextConfig;

Lastly we're going to replace the default styles with some prewritten styles mentioned below. Similar to the smart contract section, we won't focus much on the CSS side of things but this will give you some basic layouts and center all of your content in the middle of the page.

Replace the global.css and the Home.module.css with the styles below.

global.css

:root {
  font-family: Inter, system-ui, Avenir, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  line-height: 1.5;
  font-weight: 400;

  color-scheme: light dark;
  color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.87);
  background-color: #242424;

  font-synthesis: none;
  text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
  -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
  -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
}

a {
  font-weight: 500;
  color: #646cff;
  text-decoration: inherit;
}
a:hover {
  color: #535bf2;
}

body {
  margin: 0;
  display: flex;
  place-items: center;
  min-width: 320px;
  min-height: 100vh;
}

h1 {
  font-size: 3.2em;
  line-height: 1.1;
}

button {
  border-radius: 8px;
  border: 1px solid transparent;
  padding: 0.6em 1.2em;
  font-size: 1em;
  font-weight: 500;
  font-family: inherit;
  background-color: #1a1a1a;
  cursor: pointer;
  transition: border-color 0.25s;
}
button:hover {
  border-color: #646cff;
}
button:focus,
button:focus-visible {
  outline: 4px auto -webkit-focus-ring-color;
}

@media (prefers-color-scheme: light) {
  :root {
    color: #213547;
    background-color: #ffffff;
  }
  a:hover {
    color: #747bff;
  }
  button {
    background-color: #f9f9f9;
  }
}

Home.module.css

#root {
  max-width: 1280px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 2rem;
  text-align: center;
}

.logo {
  height: 6em;
  padding: 1.5em;
  will-change: filter;
  transition: filter 300ms;
}
.logo:hover {
  filter: drop-shadow(0 0 2em #646cffaa);
}
.logo.react:hover {
  filter: drop-shadow(0 0 2em #61dafbaa);
}

@keyframes logo-spin {
  from {
    transform: rotate(0deg);
  }
  to {
    transform: rotate(360deg);
  }
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference) {
  a:nth-of-type(2) .logo {
    animation: logo-spin infinite 20s linear;
  }
}

.card {
  padding: 2em;
}

.read-the-docs {
  color: #884c30;
}

.linkWrapper {
  margin-top: 15px;
}

.read-the-docs:hover {
  color: #b84814;
  transition: 0.7s;
}

.demoButton {
  background-color: #884c30;
  color: #fff;
  margin-bottom: 5px;
}

.demoButton:hover {
  background-color: #b84814;
  transition: 0.7s;
}

.viewNFT {
  color: #b84814;
}
#root {
  max-width: 1280px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 2rem;
  text-align: center;
}

.logo {
  height: 6em;
  padding: 1.5em;
  will-change: filter;
  transition: filter 300ms;
}
.logo:hover {
  filter: drop-shadow(0 0 2em #646cffaa);
}
.logo.react:hover {
  filter: drop-shadow(0 0 2em #61dafbaa);
}

@keyframes logo-spin {
  from {
    transform: rotate(0deg);
  }
  to {
    transform: rotate(360deg);
  }
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference) {
  a:nth-of-type(2) .logo {
    animation: logo-spin infinite 20s linear;
  }
}

.card {
  padding: 2em;
}

.readDocs {
  color: #ff4e17;
}

.linkWrapper {
  margin-top: 15px;
}

.readDocs:hover {
  color: #b84814;
  transition: 0.7s;
}

.demoButton {
  background-color: #ff4e17;
  color: #fff;
  margin-bottom: 5px;
}

.demoButton:hover {
  background-color: #b84814;
  transition: 0.7s;
}

.viewNFT {
  color: #ff4e17;
}

.demoContainter {
  text-align: center;
  width: 100vw;
}

.main {
  text-align: center;
  width: 100vw;
}

.connect {
  background-color: #ff4e17;
  color: #fff;
}

Now with our frontend initialized lets start building out our integration in the next section.