Development Tools and Frameworks
This chapter is an introduction to the development tools, languages, and frameworks used for Ethereum smart contract development. We will examine different methods of developing smart contracts for the Ethereum blockchain. We will discuss various constructs of the Solidity language in detail, which is currently the most popular development language for smart contract development on Ethereum.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Languages
- Compilers
- Tools and libraries
- Frameworks
- Contract development and deployment
- The layout of a Solidity source code file
- The Solidity language
There are a number of tools available for Ethereum development. The following diagram shows the taxonomy of various development tools, clients, IDEs, and development frameworks for Ethereum:
Figure 14.1: Taxonomy of Ethereum development ecosystem components
The preceding taxonomy does...
