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Blockchain Development with Hyperledger

By : Salman A. Baset, Luc Desrosiers, Nitin Gaur, Petr Novotny, Anthony O'Dowd, Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Weimin Sun, Xun (Brian) Wu
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Blockchain Development with Hyperledger

By: Salman A. Baset, Luc Desrosiers, Nitin Gaur, Petr Novotny, Anthony O'Dowd, Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Weimin Sun, Xun (Brian) Wu

Overview of this book

Blockchain and Hyperledger are open source technologies that power the development of decentralized applications. This Learning Path is your helpful reference for exploring and building blockchain networks using Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, and Hyperledger Composer. Blockchain Development with Hyperledger will start off by giving you an overview of blockchain and demonstrating how you can set up an Ethereum development environment for developing, packaging, building, and testing campaign-decentralized applications. You'll then explore the de facto language Solidity, which you can use to develop decentralized applications in Ethereum. Following this, you'll be able to configure Hyperledger Fabric and use it to build private blockchain networks and applications that connect to them. Toward the later chapters, you'll learn how to design and launch a network, and even implement smart contracts in chain code. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to build and deploy your own decentralized applications by addressing the key pain points encountered in the blockchain life cycle. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Blockchain Quick Start Guide by Xun (Brian) Wu and Weimin Sun • Hands-On Blockchain with Hyperledger by Nitin Gaur et al.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Tools for solidity development environment


Smart contract development is still in its infancy. Creating such contracts and interacting with them in a convenient manner can be done in a multitude of ways.  The following powerful tools can be used to build, monitor, and deploy your smart contracts for development on the Ethereum platform.

Browser-based IDE

In this section, we will be looking at onlien browser based tools such as Remix and EthFiddle.

Remix

Remix is a powerful, open source, smart contract tool that helps you write solidity code just from the browser. It supports compile, run, analysis, testing, and debugger options. The following three types of environments are available with Remix when developing and testing:

  • JavaScript VM: Remix comes with five Ethereum accounts, and each account is deposited with 100 ethers as default. This is convenient for testing smart contracts in the development phase. Mining is not required as it is done automatically. This option is a good choice when you...