Build Your First Ethereum DApp

Chapter 3: Ethereum DApps: Compiling, Deploying, Testing TNS tokens

In part 2 of this tutorial series on building DApps with Ethereum, we wrote the TNS token’s code. But we haven’t yet compiled it, deployed it, tested it or verified it. Let’s do all that in this part so that we’re ready for what comes next.

Compiling

At this point we have a file containing some Solidity code. But to make the Ethereum Virtual Machine understand it, we need to turn it into machine code. Additionally, in order to communicate with it from a web application, we need an ABI (application binary interface), which is a universally readable description of the functions that exist in a certain smart contract — be it a token or something more complex. We can create machine ...