Creating the decentralized marketplace application
Creating a frontend interface to interact with your deployed smart contract on the blockchain involves using web development frameworks and libraries that can communicate with Ethereum nodes. For this example, we’ll use React and web3.js.
The prerequisites for executing the code in this section include having Node.js and npm installed, a smart contract deployed on the Ethereum node that we set up on AWS in the previous section, and MetaMask or another web3 wallet installed in our browser. Some basic familiarity with the React framework will also help us understand the code in detail.
The following steps will help us install the frontend of the marketplace application:
- First, create a new React app by running the following bash command:
npx create-react-app my-decentralized-marketplace
Then, navigate to the project folder:
cd my-decentralized-marketplace
- Install the web3.js library so that you can interact with...