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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)

Serverless architecture for DApps

Traditional client-server model applications are typically hosted in centralized servers and are managed in-house or by cloud service providers. The server component provides a service to one or more clients based on the requests received.

Blockchain can remove this centralized server and bring in more transparency to users. This can be achieved by interacting with the smart contracts directly through nodes or by using a third-party wallet such as MetaMask. In this recipe, you will learn how to choose between a client-server and serverless model for your Ethereum DApp.

Getting ready

It is required to have basic knowledge of writing smart contracts and building DApps using Web3JS. This recipe...