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You're reading from Blockchain Quick Start Guide A beginner's guide to developing enterprise-grade decentralized applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789807974

Length 222 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Solidity

Tools

Blockchain

Concepts

Blockchain

Authors (2):

Xun (Brian) Wu

Weimin Sun

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Blockchain Technology

2. Ethereum Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

3. Overview of Solidity Programming

4. Building an Ethereum Blockchain Application

5. Exploring an Enterprise Blockchain Application Using Hyperledger Fabric

6. Implementing Business Networks Using Hyperledger Composer

7. Blockchain Use Cases

8. Other Books You May Enjoy

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DApp development tools

There are some popular blockchain web development tools used being by developers for creating a basic structure of a DApp project. The following sections list a few of these.

Truffle

Truffle is an Ethereum DApp end-to-end development tool that provides a development environment for writing, compiling, and deploying test smart contracts and DApps. You can write HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for the frontend; Solidity is for smart contracts, and uses the web3.js API to interact with the UI and smart contract. Truffle Boxes provide helpful boilerplates, which contain helpful modules, solidity contracts and libraries, frontend code, and many other helpful files. The Truffle Boxes help developers to quickly...

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Authors (2)

Xun (Brian) Wu

Xun (Brian) Wu is a senior blockchain architect and consultant. With over 20 years of hands-on experience across various technologies, including Blockchain, big data, cloud, AI, systems, and infrastructure, Brian has worked on more than 50 projects in his career. He has authored nine books, which have been published by O'Reilly, Packt, and Apress, focusing on popular fields within the Blockchain industry. The titles of his books include: Learn Ethereum (First Edition), Learn Ethereum (Second Edition), Blockchain for Teens, Hands-On Smart Contract Development with Hyperledger Fabric V2, Hyperledger Cookbook, Blockchain Quick Start Guide, Security Tokens and Stablecoins Quick Start Guide, Blockchain by Example, and Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week.

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Sun

Weimin Sun has 20 years' of experience working in the financial industry. He has worked for top-tier investment and commercial banks such as J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Citibank, and Morgan Stanley, where he also managed large teams for developing IT applications. Weimin has also held corporate titles such as executive director and senior VP in some of these firms. Weimin has in-depth knowledge of the blockchain technology, data science, data architecture, data modeling, and big data platforms. He holds Ph.D, M.B.A and M.Sc degrees. He has co-authored Blockchain Quick Start Guide and published several statistical journal papers.

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