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Getting Started

Before we begin, if you haven’t already done so, you may wish to check that you have all the Prerequisites installed on the platform(s) on which you’ll be developing blockchain applications and/or operating Hyperledger Fabric.

Once you have the prerequisites installed, you are ready to download and install HyperLedger Fabric. While we work on developing real installers for the Fabric binaries, we provide a script that will Install Samples, Binaries, and Docker Images to your system. The script also will download the Docker images to your local registry.

After you have downloaded the Fabric Samples and Docker images to your local machine, you can get started working with Fabric with the Using the Fabric test network tutorial.

Hyperledger Fabric smart contract (chaincode) APIs

Hyperledger Fabric offers a number of APIs to support developing smart contracts (chaincode) in various programming languages. Smart contract APIs are available for Go, Node.js, and Java:

Hyperledger Fabric application SDKs

Hyperledger Fabric offers a number of SDKs to support developing applications in various programming languages. SDKs are available for Node.js and Java:

Prerequisites for developing with the SDKs can be found in the Node.js SDK README , Java SDK README, and Go SDK README.

In addition, there is one other application SDK that has not yet been officially released for Python, but is still available for downloading and testing:

Currently, Node.js, Java and Go support the new application programming model delivered in Hyperledger Fabric v1.4.

Hyperledger Fabric CA

Hyperledger Fabric provides an optional certificate authority service that you may choose to use to generate the certificates and key material to configure and manage identity in your blockchain network. However, any CA that can generate ECDSA certificates may be used.