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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
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Section 4: Design Patterns and Best Practices

Local blockchain with Ganache

Ganache provides the GUI-based local Ethereum blockchain development environment to deploy and test contracts. Once installed on the machine, Ganache provides single-click, up-and-running blockchain deployment. This is especially built to reduce the dependency on Ethereum wallet software, which requires a lot of resources to run the local blockchain instance. Using Ganache, you can start the local blockchain within seconds, and it does not require heavy CPU/memory or disk resources.

Ganache does not require any faucet links, as these are only required for Ethereum test networks. As it's a local blockchain instance, it provides a number of pre-initialized accounts and each of the accounts has test ether balances. Testing on Ganache is faster, at least 10x faster than the Ethereum test network, as Ganache processes the transactions instantly...