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Ethereum Smart Contract Development

You're reading from   Ethereum Smart Contract Development Build blockchain-based decentralized applications using solidity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788473040
Length 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mayukh Mukhopadhyay Mayukh Mukhopadhyay
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Preface 1. Blockchain Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Grokking Ethereum 3. Hello World of Smart Contracts 4. A Noob's Guide to DApps and DAO 5. Deep-Diving into Smart Contracts 6. Solidity in Depth 7. Primer on Web3.js 8. Developing a Cryptocurrency from Scratch 9. Enterprise Use Cases 10. BaaS and the Dark Web Market 11. Advanced Topics and the Road Ahead 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Web3.js in the Ethereum ecosystem


Dale Carnegie, the famous self-improvement trainer, said that financial success is due to 15 percent technical skill, the remaining 85 percent being due to the ability to express ideas and arouse enthusiasm among people. Blockchain might be a cutting-edge technology backed by sound computing principles, but to make it a financial success we need to have mass adoption among people. For this, we need an interface to which everyone can relate.

Web3.js is one technology that can help us in this area of concern. Web3.js provides JavaScript bindings to Ethereum, which can then be used to build intuitive user interfaces using the web stack.

Figure 7.1: Web3.js interacting with a private blockchain via geth

It provides an abstraction to hide the complex internal works of smart contracts on the blockchain. In simple words, a web application implemented in JavaScript communicates with an Ethereum node or transacts with a smart contract on the blockchain using the Web3...

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