📌 Overview:

AlgoKit is Algorand’s official all-in-one toolchain for smart contract development. This guide will walk you through setting up AlgoKit and all required dependencies on a Windows system using WSL2.

✅ 1. Install VS Code

• 🔗 Download VS Code
• Run the installer and select default options.
• Install recommended extensions:
  • Python
  • Docker
  • WSL

✅ 2. Install Git

• 🔗 Download Git

• Run the installer with default settings.

• Recommended setting:

  ✔️ "Use Git from the command line and also from 3rd-party software"

• Verify:

  
  git --version
  

✅ 3. Install WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

• Open PowerShell as Administrator and run:

  
  wsl --install
  

• Restart when prompted.

• After restart, set Ubuntu as default:

  
  wsl --set-default Ubuntu
  

• Launch Ubuntu and create a user account.