April 2019
Beginner to intermediate
272 pages
7h 4m
English
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Chapter 11
Deploying and Maintaining Ethereum Apps
IN THIS CHAPTER
Anticipating differences between test and live blockchains
Preparing an app for live blockchain deployment
Deploying to a live blockchain
Maintaining a blockchain app
In Chapter 10 you find out how to test your dApp. You learn how to deploy your smart contracts to a test blockchain and then interact with them. You see how smart contracts respond to different types of data and how to call smart contract functions. Your tests are an important part of the software development lifecycle. You should test your smart contracts thoroughly before you allow them to be deployed to a production environment.
After you complete thorough testing, you’re ready to make the transition to production. It’s time to deploy your code to a live blockchain, called mainnet. Your live environment may be the main live Ethereum blockchain, another public Ethereum blockchain, or perhaps your own organization’s private blockchain. Each blockchain has its own characteristics and provides a different operating ecosystem. You must understand the ...