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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)

Building DApps and APIs using Truffle

Truffle provides a contract abstract that can be used in Node.js and in a browser. This allows us to create distributed applications right from the Truffle project. This abstract provides some additional features such as promises, default values, and returning logs and receipts from each transaction. In this recipe, you will learn how to create apps using Truffle.

Getting ready

To try this recipe, you need to have Truffle installed on your system. Your application needs to connect to a running Ethereum network to perform read and write operations. So, ensure you have a working Ethereum client in place.

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