Create a New Project

To create a new Stylus project, you can use the move-stylus CLI tool that you installed in the previous step. Open your terminal and run the following command:

move-stylus new counter

This command will create a new directory called counter with the basic structure of a Stylus project with all the necessary files and folders to get you started:

counter
├── Move.toml
├── .gitignore
└── sources/
    └── counter.move

Where:

• Move.toml: This is the manifest file for your Stylus project. It contains metadata about your project, such as name, and dependencies.
• .gitignore: This file specifies which files and directories should be ignored by Git version control.
• sources/: This directory contains the Move source files for your project. The counter.move the first module of the package.

In the next section we are going to implement a simple counter smart contract in the counter.move file.