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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 explored the surya tool, which is helpful in generating many types of reports such as inheritance graphs, function flow graphs, inheritance dependencies, and function traces. Following this, we learned about the installation and usage of Solidity linters, such as solium and solhint, and how you can improve the code quality and find security issues. We learned about the installation and usage of code coverage tool to generate the coverage report.

Using all of these tools is recommended to improve the quality of your code. Once you generate reports with these tools, sometimes, you tend to find the bugs while looking at the reports itself. Hence, it is a good practice to generate these reports and improve the code coverage of your code.

In the next chapter, we are going to look into the most frequently used ERC20 token standard of the Ethereum...