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Discussion on: The Complete Guide to Full Stack Solana Development with React, Anchor, Rust, and Phantom

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mrslappy • • Edited

Hey there, thanks for your guide

I seem to be having an issue running the tests from the hello world project. Whenever I run anchor test I get the following error:

Transaction simulation failed: Attempt to load a program that does not exist

anchor.workspace is an empty object when running the test.

Hoping you can help me solve this as I cannot find anything about this anywhere

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Girri Palaniyapan •
  1. When running the test, check the programID on the CLI.
  2. Fill that programID inside lib.rs: declare_id!("INSERT_PROGRAM_ID");
  3. Fill that programID inside the anchor.toml file as well.

This fixed the bug for me

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Mike Heavers •

How do you check the programID on the CLI?

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Kunkka0822 •

Hello.

In my experience, you should deploy program before testing. Please run "anchor deploy" before "anchor test".
When deploying, you should set program id. I hope my experience help you. Happy coding!