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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
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Section 3: Mastering ERC Standards and Libraries
16
Section 4: Design Patterns and Best Practices

Using Ganache and the Truffle Framework

In the last chapter, we learned about using the MetaMask browser plugin and the Remix IDE to write and deploy contracts. These tools are good for small projects and a smaller number of contract files. However, when you are working on a large project and have multiple contract files to manage, these tools are not developer-friendly.

Using Ganache, you can deploy your own local blockchain on your machine; this is used for testing your contracts. This is way faster than using a testnet, and is even faster than Kovan, which is the fastest testnet out there.

Truffle framework, along with Ganache, provides all of the tools that are needed for developers to work on many contract files. You can write test cases, migration scripts, and debug your contract using the framework.

In this chapter, you will learn to use Ganache blockchain...