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Truffle Quick Start Guide

By : Nikhil Bhaskar
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Truffle Quick Start Guide

By: Nikhil Bhaskar

Overview of this book

Truffle is a world-class development environment, testing framework and asset pipeline for Ethereum, aiming to make life as an Ethereum developer easier. If you are a web developer wanting to try your hand at developing Dapps with Truffle, then this is the book for you. This book will teach you to write smart contracts and build Dapps with Truffle. You will begin with covering the basics of Truffle, briefly explaining how it integrates Solidity and Web3, in orderto start building a mini decentralized application. Also, you will dive into migration, testing and integrating Truffle with the use of popular JavaScript frameworks. Lastly, you will ship your decentralized application and package it into a product. Moreover, you will go through the best practices in Truffle,so as to increase your proficiency in building Dapps with Truffle. By the end of the book, you will be able to write smart contracts and build decentralized applications with Truffle on Ethereum blockchains.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Truffle Gotchas and Best Practices

This chapter will teach you about the common mistakes people make when developing with Truffle, as well as how to remedy them. Moreover, you will learn how to apply best practices when developing your smart contract. Lastly, you will learn and understand how to diagnose and resolve common blockchain issues such as chain syncing, as well as some best security practices.

More specifically, you will:

  • Learn and understand the differences between gas, gas price, and gas limit
  • Learn and understand how to diagnose and resolve common blockchain issues such as chain syncing
  • Learn and understand security practices