Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity

Using Ganache and the Truffle Framework

In the last chapter, we learned about using the MetaMask browser plugin and the Remix IDE to write and deploy contracts. These tools are good for small projects and a smaller number of contract files. However, when you are working on a large project and have multiple contract files to manage, these tools are not developer-friendly.

Using Ganache, you can deploy your own local blockchain on your machine; this is used for testing your contracts. This is way faster than using a testnet, and is even faster than Kovan, which is the fastest testnet out there.

Truffle framework, along with Ganache, provides all of the tools that are needed for developers to work on many contract files. You can write test cases, ...