Connecting to a Solana Environment
When you are working on Solana development, you will need to connect to a specific RPC API endpoint. Solana has 3 public development environments:
- mainnet-beta https://api.mainnet-beta.solana.com
- devnet https://api.devnet.solana.com
- testnet https://api.testnet.solana.com
connect-to-environment.ts
import { clusterApiUrl, Connection } from "@solana/web3.js";
(async () => {
const connection = new Connection(clusterApiUrl("mainnet-beta"), "confirmed");
})();Finally, you can also connect to a private cluster, either one local or running remotely with the following:
import { Connection } from "@solana/web3.js";
(async () => {
// This will connect you to your local validator
const connection = new Connection("http://127.0.0.1:8899", "confirmed");
})();