8 Going public with Infura

This chapter covers

  • Exploring Ethereum nodes and network infrastructure

  • Understanding services offered by infrastructure provider Infura

  • Defining a roadmap for deploying a Dapp on a public network

  • Deploying Dapps on Infura nodes and the Ropsten network

  • Working with multiple decentralized participants

Blockchain is fundamentally a public infrastructure, like a highway or a road. Up to this point, you’ve been using the Ganache test chain (Ganache on localhost:7545) to deploy your applications, which is like learning to drive in a parking lot or prototyping an experiment in a lab. Now let’s move to the public roads to practice the Dapp development skills you’ve learned. To drive on the public roads, you don’t ...

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