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Example applications, microservices, and code samples for the Internet Computer

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Example applications, microservices, and code samples for the Internet Computer

Internet Computer sample applications

Get started building on ICP with the sample applications in this repository. From this repository, you can deploy, download, clone, fork, or share sample projects.

Looking to start a new project from scratch? Use icp-cli-templates to scaffold a project with icp new.

The projects in this repository are not intended to be used as commercial applications and do not provide any explicit or implied support or warranty of any kind.

Sample applications

New here? Start with hello_world (Motoko or Rust) — a simple full-stack canister with a frontend. Then move on to who_am_i (Motoko or Rust) to add user authentication with Internet Identity.

Canister examples are organized by language:

Frontend-only and native app examples:

hosting/ — frontend examples (React, static sites, etc.)
native-apps/ — Unity and other native app integrations
wasm/ — canisters written directly in WebAssembly

Local development

Command line

Install the prerequisites and then follow the example's README to deploy.

Prerequisites:

Node.js (LTS)
icp-cli: npm install -g @icp-sdk/icp-cli @icp-sdk/ic-wasm
Motoko examples: mops: npm install -g ic-mops
Rust examples: Rust + rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown

See the full installation guide for platform-specific instructions.

bash

git clone https://github.com/dfinity/examples.git
cd examples//

Dev Containers

Open the repo root in VS Code with the Dev Containers extension to get a pre-configured environment with the full ICP toolchain for both Motoko and Rust. VS Code will prompt you to reopen in the container automatically.

bash

git clone https://github.com/dfinity/examples.git

Then navigate into an example and follow its README to deploy.

Note: Open the repo root in the container — not an individual example subfolder.

Working with AI coding agents

These examples are built to work well with AI coding agents, backed by ICP skills — tested, frequently-updated instructions that keep an agent aligned with the fast-moving platform. Browse the skills at skills.internetcomputer.org, and see the AI coding agents guide for how agents consume and install them.

The repo is set up with autosync: opening it in Claude Code runs a SessionStart hook that keeps the skills current automatically (you'll be asked to trust the hook the first time). This targets Claude Code today; other agents fetch the skills on demand instead. Details are in AGENTS.md.

Resources

Security considerations and best practices

If you base your application on one of these examples, we recommend you familiarize yourself with and adhere to the security best practices for developing on the Internet Computer. The examples provided here may not implement all the best practices.