Ethereum and Solidity: The Complete Developer's Guide (Community Contributed Code Updates)
Update In Progress... This repo is currently being brought up-to-date. So far, updates to the Inbox and Lottery smart contracts, Node.js compile and deploy scripts, unit tests and the Lotttery React web app have all been completed. Updates to the Kickstart/CrowdCoin Next.js web app are in progress and should be completed over the coming weeks.
Purpose of this Repo
Up-to-date Solidity/web3.js/Node.js/React/Next.js code for the udemy.com course Ethereum and Solidity: The Complete Developer's Guide.
The Reason
Toward the end of 2019 I became very interested in entering the blockchain development space and so I embarked on a journey to learn as much as I can, as quickly as I can, within this ever-evolving tech space, and to be more specific, the Ethereum ecosystem. Of course, I quickly realised that the development tools and packages being used to build, develop and deploy dApps and tech within this ecosystem all share a common trend: rapid change and evolution, sometimes introducing breaking changes through iterations of their releases.
I make heavy use of the online learning website udemy.com and find it to be a great supplementary learning tool. So naturally I bought a few courses on Ethereum and Solidity. The problem is, many of these courses target outdated versions of Solidity, web3.js and Truffle in their course lessons and code examples. In the course creators' defense, remember, this is rapidly evolving tech we're dealing with here and the respective effort required to keep their video course content up-to-date with current software releases can be rather challenging.
And so, that's where I decided to lend a bit of a helping hand.
Let the Code speak
I figured that if I wanted the online courses I enrolled in to provide up-to-date code then other developers also had to want this. So, I decided to take action and just write the updated code myself, starting with the Udemy course Ethereum and Solidity: The Complete Developer's Guide, the one I found most enjoyable and acceptable.
Repository structure
This repository was setup as a monolithic repository (without the full monorepo structure so as not to introduce unnecessary extra complexity beyond the scope of the udemy.com course), allowing me to keep the updated versions of the isolated bits of the course's code and tests well organized all within a single repository.
Smart Contracts
The smart contracts created in the course are:
Working with the latest React tooling
The course sections that cover building out a front-end application using React make use of outdated versions of Create React App and Next.js.
For Create React App, the previous approach of installing globally via npm install -g create-react-app is no longer the recommended approach. As such if you have already used this command and installed create-react-app globally then you should uninstall the package using npm uninstall -g create-react-app or yarn global remove create-react-app. To create a new React app you may now use one of the following methods to ensure that you always use the latest React version:
- npx:
npx create-react-app my-app - npm:
npm init react-app my-app - Yarn:
yarn create react-app my-app
For more details on the above methods, see https://create-react-app.dev/docs/getting-started.
The Kickstart/CrowdCoin app implemented in this repo is itself currently being updated to the latest version of Next.js (v13).
The lottery-react App
To create the lottery-react app I chose to use the npx command option, as follows:
npx create-react-app lottery-reactThe Kickstart/CrowdCoin App
- Browse the app code files
- Live Demo of the app (update in progress)
Acknowledgement
I would like to give credit to Stephen Grider for creating the excellent course for which I created this repository as my own personal add-on. If any mistakes or errors are found within any of this repository's content they should be attributed to an oversight on my part, and in no part should be deemed any fault of the Udemy course author, Stephen Grider.