Written by André Dias Moreira Prol
After deploying dozens of Soroban contracts in production environments, I've learned that the real challenge isn't writing the Rust contract itself—it's building a reliable TypeScript layer that reads and writes data without surprises. Developers often get the contract logic right, then struggle for hours with XDR serialization, transaction simulation, or footprint errors. In this article, I'll share the exact patterns I use, drawn from real projects where latency and data integrity were non-...