Scaffold Stellar by AHA Labs is a Rust-based development framework that provides a complete boilerplate for building Soroban smart contracts with pre-integrated frontend wallet support, enabling developers to initialize projects, deploy contracts, and iterate in real-time.
Scaffold Stellar is an open-source project by AHA Labs that streamlines Stellar smart contract development by combining multiple tools: a CLI for project initialization and deployment, a registry client for on-chain contract management, build utilities, Rust procedural macros, and an on-chain registry system. The framework includes a hello world contract example and a pre-built frontend with Freighter wallet integration already configured. Developers can use Stellar Scaffold Watch for live recompilation and hot-reload of smart contracts, automatically updating the frontend without manual redeployment. The boilerplate supports testnet and mainnet deployment, includes Stellar Wallet CLI integration for user interactions, and allows developers to call smart contract functions directly from the frontend using async/await patterns. This enables rapid iteration and reduces setup friction for building decentralized applications on Stellar.