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Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity

By : Jitendra Chittoda
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Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity

By: Jitendra Chittoda

Overview of this book

Solidity is among the most popular and contract-oriented programming languages used for writing decentralized applications (DApps) on Ethereum blockchain. If you’re looking to perfect your skills in writing professional-grade smart contracts using Solidity, this book can help. You will get started with a detailed introduction to blockchain, smart contracts, and Ethereum, while also gaining useful insights into the Solidity programming language. A dedicated section will then take you through the different Ethereum Request for Comments (ERC) standards, including ERC-20, ERC-223, and ERC-721, and demonstrate how you can choose among these standards while writing smart contracts. As you approach later chapters, you will cover the different smart contracts available for use in libraries such as OpenZeppelin. You’ll also learn to use different open source tools to test, review and improve the quality of your code and make it production-ready. Toward the end of this book, you’ll get to grips with techniques such as adding security to smart contracts, and gain insights into various security considerations. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to write secure, production-ready smart contracts in Solidity from scratch for decentralized applications on Ethereum blockchain.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Blockchain, Ethereum, and Solidity
5
Section 2: Deep Dive into Development Tools
9
Section 3: Mastering ERC Standards and Libraries
16
Section 4: Design Patterns and Best Practices

The OpenZeppelin project 

The OpenZeppelin project is built and maintained by a company called Zeppelin. The project is open source—anyone can use the Solidity contract files that are released by the project. The project contains many contract files that are mostly used by DApps to build upon and maintain the contract architecture. Many of the contract files that are present in the project have been battle-tested and are secure enough to be used in your project.

However, as a developer, you need to keep checking the issues that have been fixed on the OpenZeppelin GitHub project. You should always check the new OpenZeppelin releases and read the bugs list, which have been fixed in the new release. If a bug has been fixed in a contract file that you have used in your project, verify and ensure that your project contract code hasn't been affected; otherwise...