You're reading from The Essential Guide to Web3 Develop, deploy, and manage distributed applications on the Ethereum network

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813471

Length 366 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Ethereum

Concepts

Blockchain

Author (1):

Vijay Krishnan

Preface

1. Part 1 – Introduction to Web3 FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Blockchain and Web3

3. Chapter 2: Getting Started With Ethereum

4. Chapter 3: Your First Ethereum Transaction

5. Part 2 – All about Smart Contracts

6. Chapter 4: Introduction to Smart Contracts

7. Chapter 5: Creating and Deploying Your First Smart Contract

8. Chapter 6: Smart Contract Security and Access Controls

9. Part 3 – Writing Your DApps for Web3

10. Chapter 7: Developer Tools and Libraries for Web3 Development

11. Chapter 8: Writing and Testing Your First dApp on Web3

12. Part 4 – Fungible Tokens

13. Chapter 9: Introduction to Tokenization

14. Chapter 10: Creating Your First Token

15. Part 5 – Non-Fungible Tokens

16. Chapter 11: Non-Fungible Token Standards

17. Chapter 12: Creating Your First Non-Fungible Token

18. Part 6 – Web3 Advanced Topics

19. Chapter 13: Understanding Oracles

20. Chapter 14: Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Zero-Knowledge EVMs

21. Chapter 15: L2 Networks and Rollups

22. Chapter 16: Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Overview

23. Index

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

Before you dive into creating your ERC-20 token, you’ll need to ensure that you have the following technical requirements set up and ready:

Operating system (OS): You can choose any OS that you are comfortable with. The examples in this guide use MacOS, but it is up to your preference.
GitHub CLI: Make sure you have the GitHub command line interface (CLI) installed and access GitHub. This is essential for version control and collaboration.
Visual Studio Code (VS Code): Install VS Code, a popular code editor that makes smart contract development more convenient.
Node.js: Ensure you have Node.js installed. This runtime environment is necessary for running JavaScript-based applications.
Node Package Manager (npm): This comes bundled with Node.js. It is used for managing packages and dependencies in your projects.
Hardhat: Install Hardhat, a development environment for Ethereum that simplifies smart contract development and testing...