Ethereum Cookbook

▶Book Description
Ethereum and Blockchain will change the way software is built for business transactions. Most industries have been looking to leverage these new technologies to gain efficiencies and create new business models and opportunities.

The Ethereum Cookbook covers various solutions such as setting up Ethereum, writing smart contracts, and creating tokens, among others. You’ll learn about the security vulnerabilities, along with other protocols of Ethereum.

Once you have understood the basics, you’ll move on to exploring various design decisions and tips to make your application scalable and secure. In addition to this, you’ll work with various Ethereum packages such as Truffle, Web3, and Ganache.

By the end of this book, you’ll have comprehensively grasped the Ethereum principles and ecosystem.

▶What You Will Learn
⦁ Efficiently write smart contracts in Ethereum
⦁ Build scalable distributed applications and deploy them
⦁ Use tools and frameworks to develop, deploy, and test your application
⦁ Use block explorers such as Etherscan to find a specific transaction
⦁ Create your own tokens, initial coin offerings (ICOs), and games
⦁ Understand various security flaws in smart contracts in order to avoid them

▶Key Features
⦁ Build end-to-end decentralized Ethereum apps using Truffle, Web3, and Solidity
⦁ Explore various solution-based recipes to build smart contracts and foolproof decentralized applications
⦁ Develop decentralized marketplaces from scratch, build wallets, and manage transactions

▶Who This Book Is For
The Ethereum Cookbook is for you if you are a software engineer, Blockchain developer, or research scientist who wants to build smart contracts, develop decentralized applications, and facilitate peer-to-peer transaction. It is assumed that you are familiar with Blockchain concepts and have sound knowledge of JavaScript.

▶What this book covers
⦁ Chapter 1, Getting Started, covers the very basics of Ethereum and its tools. You will find the steps required to set up and run a network and interact with it.

⦁ Chapter 2, Smart Contract Development, contains a set of recipes that will help you write smart contracts. It also covers the steps to compile, deploy, and test the contracts that you have written.

⦁ Chapter 3, Interacting with the Contract, covers the topics that are essential for building a decentralized application (DApp) that can interact with blockchain and the contracts.

⦁ Chapter 4, The Truffle Suite, explains a popular tool in the Ethereum ecosystem. This chapter also explains the use cases that will help you to have a better development workflow and build better DApps.

⦁ Chapter 5, Tokens and ICOs, covers the topics necessary for you to build your own Ethereum-based token and distribute it through ICO.

⦁ Chapter 6, Games and DAOs, takes you through a series of interesting recipes that will help you create your own decentralized game or organization.

⦁ Chapter 7, Advanced Solidity, contains more advanced recipes about the smart contract language that will help you to achieve more complex tasks efficiently in the Blockchain.

⦁ Chapter 8, Smart Contract Security, is designed to help you understand more about the common vulnerabilities and ways to avoid them. It also takes you through the set of tools you can use to analyze the code.

⦁ Chapter 9, Design Decisions, contains the recipes to help you decide between the common design questions you may come across while developing a fully functional DApp.

⦁ Chapter 10, Other Protocols and Applications, walks you through some of the other Ethereum protocols and applications that might come in handy while building your DApp.

⦁ Chapter 11, Miscellaneous, includes a few additional recipes that can help you build better DApps.