A new version of B3Forge, a community-built toolkit designed to help developers interact with the Internet Computer, has been released with a focus on making canister exploration and method testing easier and more collaborative.
The update comes from community member Behrad, who rebuilt B3Forge using ic-reactor v3, a React library aimed at improving frontend development workflows on the network. The release positions B3Forge as a practical example of what ic-reactor can support in production, particularly for teams building decentralised applications with modern user interfaces.
B3Forge’s latest version introduces several changes that reflect ongoing feedback from early users, especially around usability and sharing workflows with others.
One of the most talked-about additions is a new feature that allows developers to share specific canister interactions through a URL. These links can include pre-filled arguments, meaning someone else can open the same method call instantly without manually entering parameters.
For developers working across teams, this could reduce friction when debugging, testing, or walking others through a transaction or function call. Instead of sending step-by-step instructions, users can now share a direct link to the exact interaction.
Alongside this, the toolkit has received a redesigned landing page that aims to make it quicker to explore canisters, browse tokens, and locate commonly used methods. The update reflects a broader effort to turn B3Forge into a central hub for navigating on-chain services without needing to jump between multiple tools.
Another major improvement is the refreshed Candid Playground, which now offers a cleaner and faster in-browser editor for viewing and editing .did files. Since Candid remains central to defining canister interfaces, the updated playground is intended to help developers better understand and test the structure of their applications.
While the current release focuses on interaction and interface improvements, the project’s roadmap points towards more ambitious tooling. Future plans include an AI-driven orchestration layer that could generate interactive UIs from natural language prompts, as well as a visual workflow builder inspired by automation platforms such as Zapier or n8n.
The team is also exploring ideas around on-chain verification through “execution receipts”, which could eventually support compliance use cases, grant tracking, or monetisation models where developers earn rewards when their templates are reused.
B3Forge is still evolving, but the v2 release highlights a growing push within the Internet Computer community to simplify how developers interact with canisters and build user-facing tools faster.
The live application is available at forge.b3pay.net, with the project continuing to invite community feedback as it expands its feature set.
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