Contract development and deployment
There are various steps that need to be taken in order to develop and deploy the contracts. Broadly, these can be divided into three steps: writing, testing, and deployment. After deployment, the next optional step is to create the UI and present it to the end users via a web server. A web interface is sometimes not needed in the contracts where no human input or monitoring is required, but usually there is a requirement to create a web interface so that end users can interact with the contract using familiar web-based interfaces.
Writing smart contracts
The writing step is concerned with writing the contract source code in Solidity. This can be done in any text editor. There are various plugins and add-ons available for Vim in Linux, Atom, and other editors that provide syntax highlighting and formatting for Solidity source code.
Visual Studio Code has become quite popular and is used commonly for Solidity development. There is a Solidity...