Redundant Copy-Paste of Program IDs

[buffalojoec]

How can we possibly make this process smoother or go away completely?

There's two spots that can drive a dev crazy whenever a fresh build is done, or if you're developing locally and do a cargo clean:

• Anchor.toml
• lib.rs : declare_id

Is there any way we can eliminate some of the redundancy of the process of updating your program's ID?

For context, I know the process most devs typically fall into is as follows:

• cargo clean or anchor build for the first time
• anchor deploy
  • Now, here the CLI will spit out the new Program ID, so you can either end up with this error below or go straight to step 3:
  • Try to hit your program and get the Incorrect program ID error
• Update the program ID in declare_id and Anchor.toml
• anchor build again

[acheroncrypto]

I agree Anchor should handle this internally. In the meantime, people can use watchso, a hot-reloading tool, that also updates the program id in the case of mismatch between the declared one and the created public key in target/deploy folder.

[ghost]

I agree Anchor should handle this internally. In the meantime, people can use watchso, a hot-reloading tool, that also updates the program id in the case of mismatch between the declared one and the created public key in target/deploy folder.

My tool, create-solana-starter, also handles this, but only covers Anchor so far. I'll take a look at yours and see if it makes sense to integrate it.

[acheroncrypto]

Fixed in #2509.

Programs start with the correct program id and there is a new command anchor keys sync that has been added in #2505 to sync on demand.