Before this week, I thought minting an NFT on Solana meant learning Metaplex. It turns out you can mint a full NFT — with metadata, a collection, and live mutation — using just the Token Extensions program and about 50 lines of Node. js.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/lymah/solana-nfts-without-metaplex-what-i-built-with-token-extensionspublished-7do)