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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

Summary

In this chapter, we looked into various tools and frameworks such as Ganache, Truffle framework, and Infura links. We learned how to use the GUI version of the Ganache application to get your personal Ethereum blockchain up and running quickly for testing and deployment. We also covered how you should choose which Ethereum blockchain client to use according to your differing requirements. We looked into Truffle and how to write test cases and migration scripts. 

As of the time of writing, Truffle is the most used development suite by Solidity contract developers, as it supports most of their requirements, although there are some other tools that would provide more detailed information about the Solidity contracts and the overall project. We will look into those tools in the next chapter, where we will cover code quality tools. 

In the next chapter, ...