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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)
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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

Taking Advantage of Code Quality Tools

Code quality is one of the important aspects of writing applications. Good quality code always tends to have fewer bugs and problems when deployed in production. To maintain and improve code quality, there are always some tools specific to the language you are coding with. Similarly, there are some tools for Solidity as well.

In this chapter, we are going to learn about some of the tools that are used while developing Solidity contracts. There are many open source tools available for the Solidity language, and these include code quality tools such as contract graph generators, linters, and code coverage tools. Using these contract graph generators, you can view how the contracts are linked together; using the linters, you can fix possible bugs, errors, and stylistic errors; and using the code coverage tools, you can discover which part of...