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Solidity Programming Essentials. - Second Edition

You're reading from  Solidity Programming Essentials. - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803231181
Pages 412 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
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Author (1):
Ritesh Modi Ritesh Modi
Profile icon Ritesh Modi

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: The Fundamentals of Solidity and Ethereum
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Blockchain, Ethereum, and Smart Contracts 3. Chapter 2: Installing Ethereum and Solidity 4. Chapter 3: Introducing Solidity 5. Chapter 4: Global Variables and Functions 6. Chapter 5: Expressions and Control Structures 7. Part 2: Writing Robust Smart Contracts
8. Chapter 6: Writing Smart Contracts 9. Chapter 7: Solidity Functions, Modifiers, and Fallbacks 10. Chapter 8: Exceptions, Events, and Logging 11. Chapter 9: Basics of Truffle and Unit Testing 12. Chapter 10: Debugging Contracts 13. Part 3: Advanced Smart Contracts
14. Chapter 11: Assembly Programming 15. Chapter 12: Upgradable Smart Contracts 16. Chapter 13: Writing Secure Contracts 17. Chapter 14: Writing Token Contracts 18. Chapter 15: Solidity Design Patterns 19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using a block explorer

A block explorer is an Ethereum browser. They provide reports and information about current blocks and transactions on the Ethereum network. They are a great place to learn more about existing and past data. One example is available at https://etherscan.io/, as shown in the following screenshot. Block explorer can help in debugging by making information about blocks, transactions within a block, and other metadata easily accessible to developers. They help in finding the transaction hash, block hash, the sender and recipients involved in a transaction, gas supplied, gas consumed and many other details besides.

Figure 10.7 – The etherscan.io website provides information about blocks and transactions

It shows transactions involving both accounts and contracts. Clicking on a transaction reveals more details about it, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 10.8 – Transaction information and metadata...

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