# Warp (SmartWeave) SDK Intro

Warp is a popular SmartWeave Protocol SDK. With Warp and Irys your SmartWeave deployments and interactions can be extremely fast.

# Introduction

This guide is a short introduction to the Warp SDK and some of its API methods, if you want to learn more about SmartWeave Contracts in general visit Core Concepts: SmartWeave.

To use the SDK on the server, you will need access to a wallet.json file, to use the SDK in the browser you will need to connect to an arweave supported wallet.

# Install

To install warp in your project you can use npm or yarn or other npm clients.

npm install warp-contracts

yarn add warp-contracts

# Import

When using Warp with your project there are several ways to import the sdk depending on your project setup.

import { WarpFactory } from "warp-contracts";

import { WarpFactory } from "warp-contracts/mjs";

const { WarpFactory } = require("warp-contracts");

# Connecting to an environment

There are several environments that you may want to interact with, you can connect to those environments using the forXXXX helpers.

const warp = WarpFactory.forMainnet();

const warp = WarpFactory.forTestnet();

const warp = WarpFactory.forLocal();

const warp = WarpFactory.custom(
	arweave, // arweave-js
	cacheOptions, // { ...defaultCacheOptions, inMemory: true}
	environment, // 'local', 'testnet', 'mainnet'
);

# Summary

This intro guide is to help you get setup with Warp, the following guides will show you how to deploy SmartWeave contracts using the Warp SDK, how to interact with those contracts and finally, how to evolve SmartWeave contracts.