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Mastering Blockchain - Fourth Edition

By : Imran Bashir
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Book Image

Mastering Blockchain - Fourth Edition

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By: Imran Bashir

Overview of this book

Blockchain is the backbone of cryptocurrencies, it has had a massive impact in many sectors, including finance, supply chains, healthcare, government, and media. It’s also being used for cutting edge technologies such as AI and IoT. This new edition is thoroughly revised to offer a practical approach to using Ethereum, Hyperledger, Fabric, and Corda with step-by-step tutorials and real-world use-cases to help you understand everything you need to know about blockchain development and implementation. With new chapters on Decentralized Finance and solving privacy, identity, and security issues, as well as bonus online content exploring alternative blockchains, this is an unmissable read for everyone who wants to gain a deep understanding of blockchain. The book doesn’t shy away from advanced topics and practical expertise, such as decentralized application (DApp) development using smart contracts and oracles, and emerging trends in the blockchain space. Throughout the book, you’ll explore blockchain solutions beyond cryptocurrencies, such as the IoT with blockchain, enterprise blockchains, and tokenization, and gain insight into the future scope of this fascinating and disruptive technology. By the end of this blockchain book, you will have gained a thorough comprehension of the various facets of blockchain and understand the potential of this technology in diverse real-world scenarios.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Index

Interacting with contracts via frontends

It is desirable to interact with the contracts in a user-friendly manner via a webpage. It is possible to interact with the contracts using the web3.js library from HTML-/JS-/CSS-based webpages.

The HTML and JavaScript frontend

The HTML content can be served using any HTTP web server, whereas web3.js can connect via local RPC to the running Ethereum client (geth) and provide an interface to the contracts on the blockchain. This architecture can be visualized in the following diagram:

Figure 15.2: web3.js, frontend, and blockchain interaction architecture

If web3.js is not JavaScript frontend already installed, use these steps; otherwise, move on to the next section, Interacting with contracts via a web frontend.

Installing Web3.js JavaScript library

Web3, which we discussed earlier in this chapter, was looked at in the context of the Web3 API exposed by geth. In this section, we will introduce the Web3 JavaScript library (web3.js), which is...