August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
486 pages
13h 52m
English
Content preview from Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity
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Summary
We learned about MetaMask and the Remix IDE in this chapter. As of the time of writing, MetaMask is the easiest and most user-friendly way to access Decentralized Applications (DApps). It is also developer-friendly for building Ethereum contracts and interacting with the Remix IDE.
The Remix IDE provides a great way for developers to deploy and access contracts. It was the only way for the developers to do so before the Truffle framework was developed. However, after using the Truffle framework, developers may use Remix IDE to access already-deployed contracts and call functions.
It is difficult to test and debug contracts on the Remix IDE. The Truffle framework provides tools for this, which we will look into in the next chapter. ...