How-to quick reference guides

Substrate How-to quick reference guides provide instructions for achieving specific goals. Each guide explains how to perform a specific task with the assumption that you are already familiar with Substrate and programming in Rust.

The How-to quick reference guides are organized into the following categories:

Basics

Learn the simple patterns that runtime engineers know inside out. These guides cover the basics that will help you understand more complex topics.

Pallet Design

A collection of best practices on building pallets using FRAME.

Weights

All guides about benchmarking and weight configurations for runtime engineers.

Testing

Guides to cover different use cases for testing pallets and other runtime logic.

Storage migrations

A collection of guides to help runtime engineers with different types of storage migrations.

Consensus

Discover different ways to implement consensus mechanisms in your runtimes.

Parachains

All things related to integrating and extending standalone Substrate chains to parachains.

Tools

Guides for tools that are not included out-of-the-box to help you managing Substrate chains in production.

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