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The Essential Guide to Web3

By : Vijay Krishnan
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Book Image

The Essential Guide to Web3

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By: Vijay Krishnan

Overview of this book

Web3, the new blockchain-based web, is often hailed as the future of the internet. Driven by technologies such as cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DAOs, decentralized finance, and more, Web3’s aim is to give individuals more control over the web communities they belong to. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced developer, this book will help you master the intricacies of Web3 and its revolutionary technologies. Beginning with a concise introduction to blockchain and the Ethereum ecosystem, this book quickly immerses you in real-world blockchain applications. You’ll work on carefully crafted hands-on exercises that are designed for beginners as well as users with prior exposure. The chapters show you how to build and deploy smart contracts, while mastering security controls and discovering best practices for writing secure code. As you progress, you’ll explore tokenization and gain proficiency in minting both fungible and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) with the help of step-by-step instructions. The concluding chapters cover advanced topics, including oracles, Layer 2 (L2) networks, rollups, zero knowledge proofs, and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). By the end of this Web3 book, you’ll be well-versed in the Web3 ecosystem and have the skills to build powerful and secure decentralized applications.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1 – Introduction to Web3
5
Part 2 – All about Smart Contracts
9
Part 3 – Writing Your DApps for Web3
12
Part 4 – Fungible Tokens
15
Part 5 – Non-Fungible Tokens
18
Part 6 – Web3 Advanced Topics

Debugging smart contracts

In this section, we will take a quick overview of the built-in Hardhat debugger and how it can help debug issues easily.

The Hardhat console is a tool used to debug issues or errors in smart contracts during development. It is part of the Hardhat suite, which is a development framework for Ethereum smart contracts. The Hardhat console provides a simple interface for debugging smart contracts and allows developers to step through their code and inspect variables at runtime.

Here is an example of how to use the Hardhat console to analyze an issue in a smart contract:

  1. Install Hardhat: The Hardhat console is built in, so no other steps are required to enable it. You can install it using the following command:
     npm install --save-dev hardhat
  2. Compile your smart contracts: Before you can debug your smart contracts, you need to compile them as bytecode. You can use npx hardhat compile to compile the smart contracts in the contracts/ directory:
    npx hardhat...