Documents lacks tooling detail how to issue out a token

[miohtama]

The ESDT tokens chapter details how to issue out a new token.

https://docs.elrond.com/developers/esdt-tokens/#issuance-of-fungible-esdt-tokens

This documentation is very outlining and is not helpful enough for outside readers - as it has gaps to let the user to understand the complete steps to issue and manage tokens.

• It does not cross-reference to any tooling (JavaScript, Python erdpy, Rust, how to issue out a token)

• It does not refer to have source code, or related, how the tokens are managed, or any detailed discussion about token standards - for example it asks to community feedback, but does not discuss how to give such feedback and where relevant discussion should take a place

[georgebrianb]

I'd really like to see an update on this! Seems pretty important to me as a developer!

[bogdan-rosianu]

Hello! Thank you for your suggestion. The tokens page only describes the transactions' format. It can be easily integrated into any script by simply converting the input parameters into valid hex. I will leave this issue open for future references

[juliancwirko]

I also think it is something that could improve the docs a lot. The ones with transaction schemas. For example, for a developer who lands on docs first time, this doesn't tell much at first sight:

IssuanceTransaction {
    Sender: <account address of the token manager>
    Receiver: erd1qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqpqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqzllls8a5w6u
    Value: 50000000000000000 # (0.05 EGLD)
    GasLimit: 60000000
    Data: "issue" +
          "@" + <token name in hexadecimal encoding> +
          "@" + <token ticker in hexadecimal encoding> +
          "@" + <initial supply in hexadecimal encoding> +
          "@" + <number of decimals in hexadecimal encoding>
}

IMO, they usually want tabs with examples of such transactions in JS SDK, Python SDK, and maybe others too. With a clear description of what should be imported from which library, with the link to the GitHub repository. Plus, to the examples repository.