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Solidity Programming Essentials - Second Edition

By : Ritesh Modi
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Solidity Programming Essentials - Second Edition

By: Ritesh Modi

Overview of this book

Solidity is a high-level language for writing smart contracts, and the syntax has large similarities with JavaScript, thereby making it easier for developers to learn, design, compile, and deploy smart contracts on large blockchain ecosystems including Ethereum and Polygon among others. This book guides you in understanding Solidity programming from scratch. The book starts with step-by-step instructions for the installation of multiple tools and private blockchain, along with foundational concepts such as variables, data types, and programming constructs. You’ll then explore contracts based on an object-oriented paradigm, including the usage of constructors, interfaces, libraries, and abstract contracts. The following chapters help you get to grips with testing and debugging smart contracts. As you advance, you’ll learn about advanced concepts like assembly programming, advanced interfaces, usage of recovery, and error handling using try-catch blocks. You’ll also explore multiple design patterns for smart contracts alongside developing secure smart contracts, as well as gain a solid understanding of writing upgradable smart concepts and data modeling. Finally, you’ll discover how to create your own ERC20 and NFT tokens from scratch. By the end of this book, you will be able to write, deploy, and test smart contracts in Ethereum.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Fundamentals of Solidity and Ethereum
7
Part 2: Writing Robust Smart Contracts
13
Part 3: Advanced Smart Contracts

Library

Programming languages provide facilities to write reusable code and use it across multiple projects. Solidity has a similar concept through which code written once in a library can be reused across multiple smart contracts. A library in Solidity is created using the library keyword followed by the library code within a {} block:

library {
}

The concept of a library might sound very similar to that of a contract; however, there are differences. The similarity of a library with a contract is that they both consist of functions and they both can be deployed on the Ethereum network. They both generate unique addresses on the Ethereum network. However, a library can declare its own state variables. A library does not manage or maintain any state. It has a set of functions that are available for use as reusable code. So, ideally, they are best suited for implementing logic that is common across contracts without the involvement of state variables.

The code for a simple...