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Learn Ethereum
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Learn Ethereum

by Xun (Brian) Wu, Zhihong Zou, Dongying Song
September 2019
Beginner to intermediate
540 pages
13h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Truffle Box

Truffle Box provides a collection of DApp boilerplates that allow you to quickly set up your DApp project. To create a box, you can run the truffle unbox command:

truffle unbox {USER_NAME || ORG_NAME}/{REPO_NAME}

In this section, we will build a web interface for Cheshire—fast CryptoKitties DApp development—using Truffle Box. CryptoKitties is a popular Ethereum game. Players can purchase, collect, breed, and sell blockchain cats. Cheshire implements the minimum CryptoKitties DApp API, as shown here:

/kitties/kitties/:id/user/:address

The installation process is quite simple:

  1. Install the Cheshire box by running the following command:
truffle unbox endless-nameless-inc/cheshire

The output will be as follows:

  1. Run yarnstart under ...
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