By now, you should be able to develop and test smart contracts. As the next step in the development cycle, we will need to test the smart contracts in the environment close to the Ethereum main network. Testnets provide such places where a developer can test scenarios very close to the main network. In this chapter, we will get to know how to deploy smart contracts with testnets and how to monitor them after deployment.
By following the deployment steps in this chapter, you should be able to navigate through Ethereum wallets such as MyCrypto and MyEtherWallet to get test ether on testnets and to deploy smart contracts via different wallets. We will go into the details of how to use Etherscan to monitor deployed smart contracts. At the end of this chapter, we will introduce Ethereum block explorers such as Etherscan.
In this chapter, we will go...