Getting Started

See Installing Vyper to install vyper. See Tools and Resources for an additional list of framework and tools with vyper support. See Documentation for the documentation and overall design goals of the Vyper language.

See learn.vyperlang.org for learning Vyper by building a Pokémon game. See try.vyperlang.org to use Vyper in a hosted jupyter environment!

Note: Vyper is constantly evolving, use with care and understand the risks associated with smart contract development.

Installation

See the Vyper documentation for build instructions.

Compiling a contract

To compile a contract, use:

vyper your_file_name.vy

generate bytecode

vyper -f bytecode file-name.vy > file-name.bin

generate abi

vyper -f abi file-name.vy > file-name.abi

There is also an online compiler available you can use to experiment with the language and compile to bytecode and/or IR.

Note: While the vyper version of the online compiler is updated on a regular basis it might be a bit behind the latest version found in the master branch of this repository.

Contributing

• See Issues tab, and feel free to submit your own issues
• Add PRs if you discover a solution to an existing issue
• For further discussions and questions, post in Discussions or talk to us on Discord
• For more information, see Contributing

Contributing Code

Setup

uv (recommended)

Make sure you have uv installed

1. Clone this repo and cd into it
2. Run git fetch --tags [email protected]:vyperlang/vyper.git to get the tags necessary for version inference
3. Run uv sync
4. Run source .venv/bin/activate to activate the virtual environment
5. Run vyper --version to verify the setup

pip

Make sure you have pip, setuptools, and pytest installed

1. Clone this repo and cd into it
2. Run git fetch --tags [email protected]:vyperlang/vyper.git to get the tags necessary for version inference
3. Run python -m venv .venv to create a virtual environment
4. Run source .venv/bin/activate to activate it
5. Run make init to install the main dependencies
6. Run make dev-init to install the dev dependencies
7. Run vyper --version to verify the setup

Commands

• vyper path/to/file.vy to run your local copy of the compiler
• pytest to test your changes Useful pytest flags: * -x: Fail test run on first test failure * --instafail: Show reason for test failure directly, instead of at the end of a test run * --disable-warnings: Hide warnings which occurred during tests
• make mypy to type check your changes
• make lint to check your files are correctly formatted (also runs mypy)

Other Tips

Checking performance

To run a python performance profile (to find compiler perf hotspots):

PYTHONPATH=. python -m cProfile -s tottime vyper/cli/vyper_compile.py "$@"

The utility timer functions timeit, profileit and cumtimeit are available in vyper/utils.py.

Getting call graph

To get a call graph from a python profile, install gprof2dot and xdot, and run it like gprof2dot -f pstats stats | xdot -. (See https://stackoverflow.com/a/23164271/).

Testing with hevm

Install hevm by downloading it from the releases page (https://github.com/ethereum/hevm/releases/latest) and making sure it is in your PATH. hevm tests can be enabled with --hevm flag, and hevm tests can be selected with the -m hevm marker. For instance, pytest -m "hevm" --hevm.

Fuzzing tests

Fuzzing test are very slow, so they are not run by default. To run them, use pytest -m "fuzzing".