Understanding development using Truffle and unit testing

Truffle is a great tool that helps you to easily develop, compile, test, and deploy your smart contract in your development environment. You can use Truffle to easily set up a project and hook your frontend code with your deployed contract. In Chapter 8, Developing Your Own Cryptocurrency, we installed Truffle and briefly introduced the basic Truffle commands. In this section, we will cover Truffle development and unit testing in detail.

First, let’s take a look at the Truffle console and development features.

The Truffle console and development features

The Truffle console provides a Command-Line Interface (CLI) to connect external clients, such as Ganache and Ethereum Testnet. When you run the Truffle console under the Truffle project, it will point to the network definition under the development section in the Truffle config, as shown in the following code. The default Truffle port is 7545, and our Ganache...