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Now that we have the wallet connection all set up, let's make our ping button actually do something!

Here's what 'PingButton.tsx' should look like:

import { useConnection, useWallet } from '@solana/wallet-adapter-react';
import * as Web3 from '@solana/web3.js'
import { FC } from 'react'
import styles from '../styles/PingButton.module.css'

const PROGRAM_ID = new Web3.PublicKey("ChT1B39WKLS8qUrkLvFDXMhEJ4F1XZzwUNHUt4AU9aVa")
const PROGRAM_DATA_PUBLIC_KEY = new Web3.PublicKey("Ah9K7dQ8EHaZqcAsgBW8w37yN2eAy3koFmUn4x3CJtod")

export const PingButton: FC = () => {
	const { connection } = useConnection();
	const { publicKey, sendTransaction } = useWallet();

	const onClick = () => {
		if (!connection || !publicKey) { 
			alert("Please connect your wallet first lol")
			return
		}

		const programId = new Web3.PublicKey(PROGRAM_ID)
		const programDataAccount = new Web3.PublicKey(PROGRAM_DATA_PUBLIC_KEY)
		const transaction = new Web3.Transaction()

		const instruction = new Web3.TransactionInstruction({
			keys: [
				{
					pubkey: programDataAccount,
					isSigner: false,
					isWritable: true
				},
			],
			programId
		});

		transaction.add(instruction)
		sendTransaction(transaction, connection).then(sig => {
			console.log(`Explorer URL: https://explorer.solana.com/tx/${sig}?cluster=devnet`)
		})
	}

	return (
		<div className={styles.buttonContainer} onClick={onClick}>
			<button className={styles.button}>Ping!</button>
		</div>
	)
}

A bunch of this should look pretty familiar to you - we're doing the exact same thing we did on our local client, just with React hooks!

Time to test it out. Make sure your wallet is on the devnet - Settings -> Developer settings -> change network. Connect your wallet and hit that ping button, here's what you'll see:

If you click confirm, your console will print out the transaction link. Just like before, scroll to the bottom and you'll see the number has gone up 🚀

You can now let users interact with apps! That $10k product you made last section? It is now a million dollar product. Think of all the programs out there - Metaplex, Serum, anything in the Solana Program Library - you now have the skills to hook them up to a UI and let people use them. You, my friend, can build the future.

🚢 Ship challenge - SOL sender

Time to flex those muscles.

In this challenge, use this starter code to create an application that lets a user connect their Phantom wallet and send SOL to another account. Make sure you switch to the starter branch with git checkout starter after cloning.

Do this with two key steps:

  • Wrap the starter application in the appropriate context providers.
  • In the form component, set up the transaction and send it to the user’s wallet for approval.

At the end it should look like this!

Don't forget to validate addresses!

When you're done, compare your solution to the solution code here.

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