Trouble initializing solana contract on front-end client

Question

I have a very simple program which stores GIFs in a solana contract. Before I can get the gifs, however, I believe I need to call the "initialize" function in my front-end. I have created the logic/button for this, but it is not recognizing "initialize" as a function and is, instead, looking for "startStuffOff", despite me never using this phrase. However, the tests run correctly and I used anchor idl init to make sure my idl was up-to-date. I am wondering why the front end can't find my function? I have attached a photo of the relevant code to show thatmy function is called "initialize", my tests are running, and I am using the same logic to try to call the same function on the front-end. The error that I get in the console is TypeError: program.methods.initialize is not a function

My relevant dependencies in my package.json are:

 "@project-serum/anchor": "^0.25.0",
    "@solana/web3.js": "^1.66.2"

Answer 1

I don't see any function called initialize in the image you've attached. There's a difference between having an Initialize struct and an initialize function. I bet you have a function start_stuff_off that calls the Initialize struct in the lib.rs file. Replace it with:

pub fn initialize(ctx: Context<Initialize>) -> Result<()> {
//rest of the code here
 ...
}