metaplex candymachine tutorial

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# 🤔 Prerequisites
Lerna
`npm install --global lerna`

ts-node
`npm install --global ts-node`

node-js
`https://nodejs.org/en/download/current/`

typscript
`npm install -g typescript`

# 🗂 Install CLI client
```js
$ git clone https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/metaplex.git
$ cd metaplex
//NEXT
$ cd js 
$ yarn install
//NEXT
$ cd js/packages/cli 
$ yarn
$ yarn install
//if this is missing install 
//npm i @solana/spl-token
$ yarn build

$yarn run package:macos
//or if that doesn't work
$npx pkg . -d --targets node14-macos-x64 --output bin/macos/metaplex

//allow use of cli
$ sudo npm link
```
now you should see the metaplex cli installed
`$ metaplex -h`

//set solana environment
solana config set -u devnet -k ~/.config/solana/id.json
or
solana config set -u mainnet-beta -k ~/.config/solana/id.json

## Step 1
Now navigate to the `cli` package source where we can start to run the cli tools
```js
cd packages/cli/src/
```
## Step 2
Then upload the aforementioned (png, json) pairs to the `@ArweaveTeam`
 network using the following. This is where our files are stored immutably on the perma-web to be accessed later Spider web
```js
ts-node cli upload ~/path/to/your/images -k ~/.config/solana/id.json

//cli

//devnet, -n means adding 20 pairs of json and png assets
metaplex upload ~/path/to/your/images -k ~/.config/solana/id.json -e devnet -n 20

//mainnet
metaplex upload ~/path/to/your/images -k ~/.config/solana/id.json -e mainnet-beta -n 10000
```
NOTE: this might not always upload all your images correctly so it might need to be run several times. Keep running until you receive no errors.

## Step 3
Now to create your Candy Machine! 

You can specify the mint price of your NFT (in SOL) using the `-p` flag as shown: 1 = 1 SOL
```js
ts-node cli create_candy_machine -k ~/.config/solana/id.json -p 1
//cli 
metaplex create_candy_machine -k ~/.config/solana/id.json -p 1


```

This should also print the PDA of your candy machine.

## Step 4
Next, we want to set the start date, after which our NFTs will be freely available for the public to mint Timer clock
```js
ts-node cli set_start_date -k ~/.config/solana/id.json -d "03 Sep 2021 11:23:00 GMT"
//cli
metaplex set_start_date -k ~/.config/solana/id.json -d "03 Sep 2021 11:23:00 GMT"

or
metaplex update_candy_machine --env devnet --keypair ~/.config/solana/id.json --price 0.5 --date "01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT"

## Step 5
Here comes the fun part. Now that our Candy Machine is locked and loaded, it's time to mint Printer

For example, here we are minting to our own key, however you could specify any key here to mint to.
```js
ts-node cli mint_one_token -k ~/.config/solana/id.json
//cli 
metaplex mint_one_token -k ~/.config/solana/id.json
```
## Step 6
Sign your mint
metaplex sign_candy_machine_metadata -k ~/.config/solana/id.json