Book Image

Blockchain Developer's Guide

By : Brenn Hill, Samanyu Chopra, Paul Valencourt, Narayan Prusty
Book Image

Blockchain Developer's Guide

By: Brenn Hill, Samanyu Chopra, Paul Valencourt, Narayan Prusty

Overview of this book

Blockchain applications provide a single-shared ledger to eliminate trust issues involving multiple stakeholders. It is the main technical innovation of Bitcoin, where it serves as the public ledger for Bitcoin transactions. Blockchain Developer's Guide takes you through the electrifying world of blockchain technology. It begins with the basic design of a blockchain and elaborates concepts, such as Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), tokens, smart contracts, and other related terminologies. You will then explore the components of Ethereum, such as Ether tokens, transactions, and smart contracts that you need to build simple DApps. Blockchain Developer's Guide also explains why you must specifically use Solidity for Ethereum-based projects and lets you explore different blockchains with easy-to-follow examples. You will learn a wide range of concepts - beginning with cryptography in cryptocurrencies and including ether security, mining, and smart contracts. You will learn how to use web sockets and various API services for Ethereum. By the end of this Learning Path, you will be able to build efficient decentralized applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Blockchain Quick Reference by Brenn Hill, Samanyu Chopra, Paul Valencourt • Building Blockchain Projects by Narayan Prusty
Table of Contents (37 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introduction to truffle


Truffle is a development environment (providing a command-line tool to compile, deploy, test, and build), framework (providing various packages to make it easy to write tests, deployment code, build clients, and so on) and asset pipeline (publishing packages and using packages published by others) to build ethereum-based DApps.

Installing truffle

Truffle works on OS X, Linux, and Windows. Truffle requires you to have Node.js version 5.0+ installed. At the time of writing this, the latest stable version of truffle is 3.1.2, and we will be using this version. To install truffle, you just need to run this command:

npm install -g truffle

Before we go ahead, make sure you are running testrpc with network ID 10. The reason is the same as the one discussed earlier.

Initializing truffle

First, you need to create a directory for your app. Name the directory altcoin. Inside the altcoin directory, run this command to initialize your project:

truffle init

Once completed, you'll have...