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Building Blockchain Projects

You're reading from   Building Blockchain Projects Building decentralized Blockchain applications with Ethereum and Solidity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787122147
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Narayan Prusty Narayan Prusty
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding Decentralized Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding How Ethereum Works 3. Writing Smart Contracts 4. Getting Started with web3.js 5. Building a Wallet Service 6. Building a Smart Contract Deployment Platform 7. Building a Betting App 8. Building Enterprise Level Smart Contracts 9. Building a Consortium Blockchain

Building a client for an ownership contract

In the previous chapter, we wrote Solidity code for the ownership contract, and in both the previous chapter and this chapter, we learned web3.js and how to invoke the methods of the contract using web3.js. Now, it's time to build a client for our smart contract so that users can use it easily.

We will build a client where a user selects a file and enters owner details and then clicks on Submit to broadcast a transaction to invoke the contract's set method with the file hash and the owner's details. Once the transaction is successfully broadcasted, we will display the transaction hash. The user will also be able to select a file and get the owner's details from the smart contract. The client will also display the recent set transactions mined in real time.

We will use sha1.js to get the hash of the file on the frontend, jQuery for DOM manipulation,...

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