You're reading from The Essential Guide to Web3 Develop, deploy, and manage distributed applications on the Ethereum network

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813471

Length 366 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Ethereum

Concepts

Blockchain

Author (1):

Vijay Krishnan

Preface

1. Part 1 – Introduction to Web3 FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Blockchain and Web3

3. Chapter 2: Getting Started With Ethereum

4. Chapter 3: Your First Ethereum Transaction

5. Part 2 – All about Smart Contracts

6. Chapter 4: Introduction to Smart Contracts

7. Chapter 5: Creating and Deploying Your First Smart Contract

8. Chapter 6: Smart Contract Security and Access Controls

9. Part 3 – Writing Your DApps for Web3

10. Chapter 7: Developer Tools and Libraries for Web3 Development

11. Chapter 8: Writing and Testing Your First dApp on Web3

12. Part 4 – Fungible Tokens

13. Chapter 9: Introduction to Tokenization

14. Chapter 10: Creating Your First Token

15. Part 5 – Non-Fungible Tokens

16. Chapter 11: Non-Fungible Token Standards

17. Chapter 12: Creating Your First Non-Fungible Token

18. Part 6 – Web3 Advanced Topics

19. Chapter 13: Understanding Oracles

20. Chapter 14: Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Zero-Knowledge EVMs

21. Chapter 15: L2 Networks and Rollups

22. Chapter 16: Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Overview

23. Index

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

Before you dive into creating your ERC20 token, you’ll need to ensure that you have the following technical requirements set up and ready:

Operating system (OS): You can choose any OS that you are comfortable with. The examples in this guide use macOS, but it is flexible to your preference.
GitHub CLI: Make sure you have the GitHub command-line interface (CLI) installed and access to GitHub. This is essential for version control and collaboration.
Visual studio code (VS Code): Install VS Code, a popular code editor that makes smart contract development more convenient.
Node.js: Ensure you have Node.js installed. This runtime environment is necessary to run JavaScript-based applications.
Node package manager (npm): This comes bundled with Node.js. It is used to manage packages and dependencies in your projects.
Hardhat: Install Hardhat, a development environment for Ethereum that simplifies smart contract development and testing...