DApp Development
Building Decentralized Apps
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Getting Started
https://developers.eos.io/eosio-cpp/docs/introduction-to-smart-contracts
Design Framework
A contract is an agreement governing outcomes for actions, given a set of inputs. A contract can range from formal legal contracts (e.g., a financial transaction) to something as simple as the “rules” of a game. Typical actions can be things such as fund transfers (in the case of a financial contract) or game moves (in the case of a game contract).
An EOSIO smart contract is software registered on the blockchain and executed on EOSIO nodes, that implements the semantics of a “contract” whose ledger of action requests are being stored on the blockchain. The Smart Contract defines the interface (actions, parameters, data structures) and the code that implements the interface. The code is compiled into a canonical bytecode format that nodes can retrieve and execute. The blockchain stores the transactions (e.g., legal transfers, game moves) of the contract. Each Smart Contract must be accompanied by a Ricardian Contract that defines the legally binding terms and conditions of the contract.
Digital Scarcity’s github repo has an example designed to provide a step-by-step framework and example for creating a smart contract on EOS. It uses a simple use case of equipment rentals that list their equipment for rent and renters who pay rent for those items.
Process Steps
Here are the general steps to developing a smart contract.
Data Model
Define the data that will be persisted in the smart contract
Actions
Define the actions, or state changes, that must exist in your smart contract
Pre and Post-Conditions
Define the actions or state changes, that must exist in your smart contract
Open Source Smart Contracts
EOS Costa Rica maintains a list of open-source EOS smart contracts you can use as reference in the following repo:
https://github.com/eoscostarica/eos-contracts
Jungle Testnet
More at https://jungletestnet.io
Kylin Testnet
Development Environment
EOS Local provides a really quick way to set up an EOS local network with IPFS using docker.
https://github.com/eoscostarica/eos-local
EOSIO.CDT (Contract Development Toolkit) is a suite of tools used to build EOSIO contracts.
https://github.com/EOSIO/eosio.cdt
Python-based EOS smart-contract development & testing framework.
https://github.com/tokenika/eosfactory
EOSIO DApp Boilerplate
This boilerplate provides a very quick way to get started with application development on the EOSIO platform. It’s an opinioned selection of technologies that will allow you to build performant and scalable EOSIO dApps.
https://github.com/eoscostarica/eos-dapp-boilerplate