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Ethereum Cookbook

By : Manoj P R
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Ethereum Cookbook

By: Manoj P R

Overview of this book

Ethereum and Blockchain will change the way software is built for business transactions. Most industries have been looking to leverage these new technologies to gain efficiencies and create new business models and opportunities. The Ethereum Cookbook covers various solutions such as setting up Ethereum, writing smart contracts, and creating tokens, among others. You’ll learn about the security vulnerabilities, along with other protocols of Ethereum. Once you have understood the basics, you’ll move on to exploring various design decisions and tips to make your application scalable and secure. In addition to this, you’ll work with various Ethereum packages such as Truffle, Web3, and Ganache. By the end of this book, you’ll have comprehensively grasped the Ethereum principles and ecosystem.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Smart Contract Development

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Choosing an IDE wisely
  • Writing your first smart contract
  • Testing your contract with Remix
  • Static and dynamic types in solidity
  • Constructor and fallback functions
  • Working with struct and enum
  • Control structures in solidity
  • Writing functions in solidity
  • Deciding between arrays and mappings
  • Where to use function modifiers
  • Using visibility modifiers efficiently
  • Essential events: EVM logger
  • Efficiently using memory and storage
  • Compiling your contract with the solc compiler
  • Deploying the contract using geth