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Published inMar 2023
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Imran Bashir
Imran Bashir
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Imran Bashir

Imran Bashir has an M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London, and has a background in software development, solution architecture, infrastructure management, and IT service management. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the British Computer Society (BCS). Imran has extensive experience in both the public and financial sectors, having worked on large-scale IT projects in the public sector before moving to the financial services industry. Since then, he has worked in various technical roles for different financial companies in Europe's financial capital, London.
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Setting up a development environment

A usual and sensible approach to develop and test Ethereum smart contracts is within a local private net or a simulated environment like Ganache. After all the relevant tests are successful on a public test net, the contracts can then be deployed to the public main net. There are, however, variations in this process.

Many developers opt to only develop and test contracts on a local simulated environment and then deploy them onto the public main net or their private/enterprise production blockchain networks. Developing first on a simulated environment and then deploying directly to a public network can lead to faster time to production, as setting up private networks may take longer compared to setting up a local development environment with a blockchain simulator.

There are new tools and frameworks available, like Truffle and Ganache, which make development and testing for Ethereum easier. We will look into these tools in more depth in...

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Published in: Mar 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803241067

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Imran Bashir

Imran Bashir has an M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London, and has a background in software development, solution architecture, infrastructure management, and IT service management. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the British Computer Society (BCS). Imran has extensive experience in both the public and financial sectors, having worked on large-scale IT projects in the public sector before moving to the financial services industry. Since then, he has worked in various technical roles for different financial companies in Europe's financial capital, London.
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