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Ethereum Cookbook

You're reading from   Ethereum Cookbook Over 100 recipes covering Ethereum-based tokens, games, wallets, smart contracts, protocols, and Dapps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133998
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Manoj P R Manoj P R
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started 2. Smart Contract Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Interacting with the Contract 4. The Truffle Suite 5. Tokens and ICOs 6. Games and DAOs 7. Advanced Solidity 8. Smart Contract Security 9. Design Decisions 10. Other Protocols and Applications 11. Miscellaneous 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Reading data from smart contracts

The best way to interact with your contract from your application is by using web3.js. This library offers plenty of feature sets that you will need while building a DApp. In this recipe, you will learn to read data from the deployed smart contract.

Getting ready

You need to have web3.js installed on your application to use these methods. Ensure that your Ethereum node is running. You can also use Ganache to create a development node.

How to do it...

In order to read data from smart contracts, we will have to perform these steps:

  1. Create...
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