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Ethereum: Tools & Skills
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Ethereum: Tools & Skills

by Bruno Skvorc, Ahmed Bouchefra, Mislav Javor, Tonino Jankov
August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
146 pages
2h
English
SitePoint
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Chapter 4: Introducing Truffle, a Blockchain Smart Contract Suite

by Mislav Javor

In the early days of smart contract development (circa 2016) the way to go was to write smart contracts in your favorite text editor and deploy them by directly calling geth and solc.

The way to make this process a little bit more user friendly was to make bash scripts which could first compile and then deploy the contract … which was better, but still pretty rudimentary — the problem with scripting, of course, being the lack of standardization and the suboptimal experience of bash scripting.

The answer came in two distinct flavors — Truffle and Embark — with Truffle being the more popular of the two (and the one we’ll be discussing in this article).

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