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Ethereum Cookbook

You're reading from   Ethereum Cookbook Over 100 recipes covering Ethereum-based tokens, games, wallets, smart contracts, protocols, and Dapps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133998
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Manoj P R Manoj P R
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started 2. Smart Contract Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Interacting with the Contract 4. The Truffle Suite 5. Tokens and ICOs 6. Games and DAOs 7. Advanced Solidity 8. Smart Contract Security 9. Design Decisions 10. Other Protocols and Applications 11. Miscellaneous 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing and configuring web3.js

Web3.js is a JavaScript library that implements the JSON RPC specification of Ethereum. This library allows you to interact with a local or remote Ethereum node, using an HTTP or IPC connection. The following recipe will guide you through installing and configuring web3.js, as well as provide examples to use in your Decentralized Application (DApp).

Getting ready

Since the library is written in JavaScript and distributed via npm, you will need Node.js installed on your machine to use the library. Bower and Meteor versions are also available and you need to have the respective tools to download them.

There are two web3.js releases in use: 0.2x.x, which is the current stable version, and 1...

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