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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
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Section 1: Getting Started with Blockchain, Ethereum, and Solidity
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Section 2: Deep Dive into Development Tools
9
Section 3: Mastering ERC Standards and Libraries
16
Section 4: Design Patterns and Best Practices

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to create your own ERC20 token from scratch. To do this we started with the specification of the token to list down the features of the token. Then, we moved on to choosing the appropriate contract library files that would help to reduce the development cycle of the contracts. We then developed the contracts in Solidity. After the development of the contracts, we created migration scripts and test cases for the project. We also deployed and tested the project on the local instance of the Ganache blockchain and on the Rinkeby testnet. 

We followed every step required to build the project from scratch. To further enhance the development process, you should also use linters, such as Eslint and Solhint, to maintain the project's quality and remove unwanted issues from your project.

In the next chapter, we will learn about the...