How I Built a Counter Program in Anchor and Learned to Trust My Tests (opens in new tab)

I spent a week building a counter program in Anchor — the Rust framework for writing Solana programs. By the end I had two instructions, one authorization constraint, and a test suite I could actually trust. Here is what I built, how I tested it, and the moment I proved the tests were real. Start Here: The Accounts Struct If you come from Web2, this is the part that looks the strangest: #[derive(Accounts)] pub struct Initialize { #[account( init, payer = authority, space = 8 + Counter::INIT_S...