Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity

Using artifacts.require() to get the contract instance

At the start of the migration script, we need to define which contracts instances we would like to interact with. You can get an abstraction instance of a contract as an object using the following example syntax:

var contractVariable = artifacts.require("<ContractName>");

The following is an example command to get the instance of DepositContract:

var DepositContract = artifacts.require("DepositContract");

You need to provide a contract name in place of <ContractName>. The contract name you define here should match the contract name defined in the multiple contract files present under the contracts folder. You should not provide a .sol contract filename, because a contract file could contain ...