function startContract(): ContractEndpoints {
  // NOTE: all the modules of this library MUST be imported dynamically like this
  const {
    CIP30WalletWrapper,
    Balancer,
    getProtocolParamsFromBlockfrost,
  } = await import("cardano-pab-client");

  // initialize cip30 wallet
  // assuming we already have initialized the CIP30 wallet in the browser environment
  const wallet = await CIP30WalletWrapper.init(walletInjectedFromBrowser);

  // Initialize Balancer
  const protocolParams = await getProtocolParamsFromBlockfrost(
    "https://cardano-preprod.blockfrost.io/api/v0",
    "preprodXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
  );
  const balancer = await Balancer.init(protocolParams);

  // Try to get unbalanced transaction from PAB
  const walletId = await wallet.getWalletId();
  const pabApi = new PABApi("http://localhost:9080");

  const [endpoints, pabResponse] = await ContractEndpoints.start(
    walletId,
    { endpointTag: "Init", params: [] },
    pabApi,
  );

  if (!succeeded(pabResponse)) {
    alert(
      `Didn't got the unbalanced transaction from the PAB. Error: ${pabResponse.error}`
    );
  } else {
    // the pab yielded the unbalanced transaction. balance, sign and submit it.
    const etx = pabResponse.value;

    const walletInfo = await wallet.getWalletInfo();
    const txBudgetApi = new TxBudgetAPI({
      baseUrl: "http//:localhost:3001",
      timeout: 10000,
    });

    const fullyBalancedTx = await balancer.fullBalanceTx(
      etx,
      walletInfo,
      // configuration for the balanceTx and rebalanceTx methods which are interally
      // used by this method
      { feeUpperBound: 1000000, mergeSignerOutputs: false },
      // a high-order function that exposes the balanced tx and the inputs info so to
      // calculate the executions units, which are then set in the transaction and
      // goes to the rebalancing step
      async (balancedTx, inputsInfo) => {
        const txBudgetResponse = await txBudgetApi.estimate(balancedTx, inputsInfo);
        if (succeeded(txBudgetResponse)) {
            const units = txBudgetResponse.value;
            return units;
        }
        // if the tx budget service fails or it isn't available,
        // fallback to hardcoded units

        // directly use the serialization library is useful here
        // must be dynamically imported too!
        const { SerLibLoader } = await import("cardano-pab-client");
        await SerLibLoader.load();
        const S = SerLibLoader.lib;

        // parse the transaction cbor into a nice format
        const tx = S.Transaction.from_hex(balancedTx).to_js_value();
        // ... here you have all the info of the transaction
        // in particular, access to the redeemers like so
        const { redeemers } = tx.witness_set;
        // also, have the complete information about the inputs (not only
        // the references) in the inputsInfo object

        if (redeemers) {
          redeemers.forEach((r: S.RedeemerJSON) => /*...*/);
          // do stuff...
          return [
            [{ tag: "Mint", index: 0 }, { mem: 4000000, cpu: 1500000000 }],
            [{ tag: "Spend", index: 2 }, { mem: 6000000, cpu: 1800000000 }],
            // ...
          ];
        }
        // no redeemers, so no hardcoded units are needed.
        return [];
      },
    );
    // print to the console the fully balanced tx cbor for debugging purposes
    console.log(`Balanced tx: ${fullyBalancedTx}`);
    // now that the transaction is balanced, sign and submit it with the wallet
    const response = await wallet.signAndSubmit(fullyBalancedTx);
    if (succeeded(response)) {
      const txHash = response.value;
      alert(`Start suceeded. Tx hash: ${txHash}`);
    } else {
      alert(`Start failed when trying to submit it. Error: ${response.error}`);
    }
  }
  // the ContractEndpoints instance is connected to the PAB, so we can return it to
  // continue doing operations with it.
  return endpoints;
}

const {
  getWalletInitialAPI,
  CIP30WalletWrapper,
} = await import("cardano-pab-client");

const walletInitialAPI = getWalletInitialAPI(window, "eternl");
// or
// const walletInitialAPI = getWalletInitialAPI(window, "nami");

// this will ask the user to give to this dApp access to their wallet methods
const walletInjectedFromBrowser = await walletInitialAPI.enable();

// then we can initialize the CIP30WalletWrapper class of the library
const wallet = await CIP30WalletWrapper.init(walletInjectedFromBrowser);

// ...