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Published inApr 2017
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Narayan Prusty
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Narayan Prusty

Narayan Prusty is a full-stack developer. He works as a consultant for various start-ups around the world. He has worked on various technologies and programming languages but is very passionate about JavaScript, WordPress, Ethereum, Solr, React, Cordova, MongoDB, and AWS. Apart from consulting for various start-ups, he also runs a blog titled QNimate and a video tutorial site titled QScutter, where he shares information about a lot of the technologies he works on.
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Mist


Mist is a client for Ethereum, Whisper, and Swarm. It lets us send transactions, send Whisper messages, inspect blockchains, and so on.

The relation between Mist and geth is similar to the relation between Ethereum Wallet and geth.

The most popular feature of Mist is that it comes with a browser. Currently, the frontend JavaScript running in the browser can access the web3 APIs of the geth node using the web3.js library (a library that provides Ethereum console's JavaScript APIs for other applications to communicate with geth).

The basic idea of Mist is to build the third generation web (Web 3.0), which would wipe out the need to have servers by using Ethereum, Whisper, and Swarm as replacements for centralized servers.

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Published in: Apr 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787122147

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Narayan Prusty

Narayan Prusty is a full-stack developer. He works as a consultant for various start-ups around the world. He has worked on various technologies and programming languages but is very passionate about JavaScript, WordPress, Ethereum, Solr, React, Cordova, MongoDB, and AWS. Apart from consulting for various start-ups, he also runs a blog titled QNimate and a video tutorial site titled QScutter, where he shares information about a lot of the technologies he works on.
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