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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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Getting started with truffle-contract


It is important to learn truffle-contract before learning truffle because truffle-contract is tightly integrated into truffle. Truffle tests, code to interact with contracts in truffle, deployment code, and so on are written using truffle-contract.

The truffle-contract API is a JavaScript and Node.js library, which makes it easy to work with ethereum smart contracts. Until now, we have been using web3.js to deploy and call smart contracts functions, which is fine, but truffle-contract aims to make it even easier to work with ethereum smart contracts. Here are some features of truffle-contract that make it a better choice then web3.js in order to work with smart contracts:

  • Synchronized transactions for better control flow (that is, transactions won't finish until you're guaranteed they've been mined).
  • Promise-based API. No more callback hell. Works well with ES6 and async/await.
  • Default values for transactions, such as from address or gas.
  • Returning logs,...
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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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