Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity

Chapter 5

1. Ganache GUI provides full UI/UX control, with lots of advanced features that you can configure. The Ganache GUI can be used while you are doing local development; however, the Ganache CLI is the command-line version of Ganache. You can use ganache-cli for your local development environment, as well as automated testing or scripting.
2. You can use Ganache as a personal Ethereum blockchain. It is lightweight and easy to set up. However, for a private Ethereum blockchain, you can also use the Geth or Parity blockchain and run it locally.
3. Yes, you can use the Truffle framework for deploying contracts using migration scripts in a production environment (mainnet). Truffle maintains the migration status locally, which means that, in future, ...