Building Blockchain Projects

Using truffle's console

Sometimes, it's nice to work with your contracts interactively for testing and debugging purposes or to execute transactions by hand. Truffle provides you with an easy way to do this via an interactive console, with your contracts available and ready to use.

To open the console, run this command:

truffle console

The console connects to an ethereum node based on your project configuration. The preceding command also takes a --network option to specify a specific node to connect to.

Here are the features of the console:

• You can run the command in the console. For instance, you can type migrate --reset within the console, and it will be interpreted the same as if you ran truffle migrate --reset from outside the console. ...