Development with Truffle

Using Truffle is quite simple. Truffle provides lots of scaffolding code and configuration by default. Developers need only to reconfigure some of the out-of-the-box configuration options and focus on writing their contracts. Let's take a look at the following steps to bootstrap a new project using Truffle:

1. The first step is to create a project folder that will hold all project- and Truffle-generated artifacts. Alternatively, a project is generated by Truffle if we provide a project name to the init command.
2. Navigate to the project folder and run the init command. The init command refers to the initiation and initialization of Truffle within the folder. It will generate appropriate folders, code files, configuration, and linkage within the folder, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 9.5 – The output from executing the Truffle init command

The preceding code results in the following generated folder...